Word: haven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manners. He displays an admirable generosity of spirit in allowing women to pick up lunch checks. "I was also delighted," says Morrow, "to give up the little hopping stutter-step necessary to place me on the curbside when walking down the sidewalk with a woman. But I haven't quite abandoned the habit of holding a woman's chair. What I do is place one hand on the back of the chair and then fall into a sort of abstracted trance until the woman is seated, as if I were not entirely responsible for my actions...
...Representatives. By giving Senators six-year terms, the founding fathers hoped for a senior body of thoughtful, experienced and judicious men who would temper the boisterous House, where membership is subject to total change every two years. Now the opposite is true. The House has become a safe haven for incumbents; 95% of those who sought re-election won this year...
...Fidelity offices. Before his elimination, Underbill deposited large sums of money in a Bahamian bank account. Thevis then borrowed money from the bank. An attorney placed shares of AT&T worth $297,000 in a trust in Thevis' name at a bank on Nauru Island, a tax haven in the South Pacific. The stock was then sold on the Hong Kong exchange, and the cash was deposited in Barclays Bank in Hong Kong...
...Coach Tony Caracio. "One of the drills-walking 20 yds. on the inside of your feet, then 20 yds. on the outside to build ankle strength and flexibility-looks so weird that we're embarrassed to do it before a game, where people can see us. But we haven't had any ankle injuries since Doc told...
...alluded to what he called "a new campaign." Mrs. Uzielli merely smiled at Widower Carey, who has twelve children. Said Carey later: "This one is not going to be quite so much uphill as I might expect." Said his chief political strategist, David Garth: "This is one campaign I haven't been asked...