Word: herbs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Colson apparently satisfied Nixon's yen for macho operators. He was one of those who talked of "playing hardball" for keeps, and hostile outsiders were not his only targets. He, along with Haldeman, cracked down on more genteel staffers like Communications Director Herb Klein. Though a Nixon friend for more than 20 years, Klein finally resigned. Everything Contrived. His most important role was as a resourceful if unscrupulous political operator. Colson took on the tough jobs for the President. He leaked damaging or misleading information to the press about people who criticized the President, had young men hired...
...officials over his stadium lease, Finley moved his show to Oakland in 1968, quickly bought the California Seals hockey team and, in 1972, basketball's Memphis Tams. But baseball remained his first priority. Finley promoted the designated-hitter experiment in the American League. This year he hired Sprinter Herb Washington to serve as a kind of designated runner for the A's. In an era of absentee ownership, General Manager Finley exercises more day-to-day control over his empire than does any of his major-league rivals. "In reality," he says, "you could...
Quaker rookie Rick Meyer easily disposed of veteran junior Chip Baird, 6-4, 6-1, in the third singles match, and at fourth singles, Crimson freshman John Horn, who recently recovered from the flu, lost to Herb Benham...
...country of few people, sprung from a harsh red earth that has nurtured pure beauty in twisted forms for eons. The Greek land is adamantine and you might expect it to be forbidding. But you are startled as you walk over stone and dry earth carpeted with pungent herb, faded green leaves and bleached purple flowers, because the land exhales the tolerance and beauty of what endures. Little rain falls, the earth is riddled with rocks that men have been heaving into meandering low walls for generations; the olive trees are strong and timeless but can't escape the battering...
Suzann Parker, a first-year student and left wing, said that she "started playing because Herb Pinder the star of the Blades, the Business School men's team, was in my section and gave me his stick." Many of the girls started after seeing how much fun the men had, Parker said...