Word: hides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of crisis that inevitably engulfs the White House and spills out into the briefing room. He feels he is most vulnerable with the press when questions cannot be directly answered because of national security considerations. Watergate memories are all too fresh, and national security was the excuse to hide numerous illegal activities in the Nixon White House. But there are occasions when national security should be legitimately invoked. "My roughest moments involve intelligence matters," says Powell. "There is no way to prove yourself. The situation is made for discord and distrust. It costs me more in terms...
...then look for some place to hole up until the pregame meetings with the coaches. Some guys sit on the head for an hour and a half, some lay prostrate in the hallways and others hide among the lockers. (I like to lay on the electric gurney cart that they use to cart off players injured during practice but some guys are superstitious and would rather not have anything to do with that cart.) You then head for the meetings with the coaches and there your coach goes over all the things you had prepared for the game...
...would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today, and who everybody knew was never even going to have enough money to pay for the relish. But still he was learning, he was watching these people, watching how they dressed and how they talked and how they managed to hide the grimace when they swallowed Scotch on the rocks, which was what they all drank but none of them liked. It was too late to walk out then, when he was learning so much, and when he had come to Harvard to learn about the world...
There were some Harvard students, mostly curious freshmen, but Walter noticed that most of the men were from other schools. He wore his crimson jacket as though it were a badge of rank. He took his place against a wall, put one foot in front of the other to hide the hole in his pants, and waited for magic. He had all the right clothes...
...slow-witted, very unhip rookie whose first revelation to the cell is that he plans to learn advanced auto mechanics while behind bars. Then suddenly Smitty becomes a sensitive, loyal friend to Mona. And finally he turns, despite himself, into a hardened bastard concerned only with salvaging his own hide. Prisoners do have to learn the ropes fast, but Herbert's script and Elliot's interpretation turn the tables much too fast...