Word: hadn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...private industry, most notably (and incongruously) as an executive with the Royal Crown Cola company. In 1974 he parlayed his still glittering name recognition into a seat in the U.S. Senate. Even as a member of Congress, he remained smitten with space travel, but as an aging lawmaker who hadn't been in a flight rotation or ready room in years, he accepted the fact that his professional flying career was over. And it was--at least until three years...
...turn directions I had downloaded for free from Big Book had been, so far, flawless. But now the printout was advising that I detour to the south; all the traffic, however, was proceeding due east. What to do? Heed the computer's advice, or follow the herd? Stupidly, I hadn't packed an atlas or road map. "Ella pinched me!" someone shrieked in steerage. Tick-tick-tick. "Follow the traffic," hissed My Wife Who Is Never Wrong...
...must report, comrades, that at the last possible moment, I betrayed the information revolution: I followed the traffic. That turned out to be a wise move. I subsequently consulted a paper map and can only conclude that the road I and my fellow travelers took hadn't been built when Big Book's database was created...
...Friday, July 17, around 7 p.m., Starr sent over his subpoena to Clinton's lawyer, David Kendall, at Williams & Connolly. And what happened? Nothing. No answer. Nothing Saturday. Nothing Sunday. Kendall hadn't even discussed it with Clinton yet: the President was out of town, and his lawyer didn't want to go over the bad news by phone. There was still time: the date on the subpoena for Clinton to appear at the federal courthouse was July 28, nine days away. But if the White House lawyers were going to fight it, they certainly were taking their sweet time...
...first asked whether he'd ever used marijuana, candidate Clinton replied that he'd "never violated the laws of my country"--then that he had "never violated any state laws." And this was true, literally. It turned out, of course, that it was in England that he hadn't inhaled...