Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last December, after Chief Justice Warren Burger complained about the smokers on the Amtrak Metroliners between Washington and New York, cigars and pipes were prohibited in first-class cars. Pipe-puffing Senator Hugh Scott wrote to Non-Smoker Burger to ask him to rescind his request to Amtrak: "May it please the court," said Scott, he wanted a ruling "to the effect that pipe smokers may enjoy the use of the presently interdicted area for the indulgence of their contemplative addiction." Burger's answer to Scott has not been revealed...
...long run to refuse aid to North Viet Nam. There are also strong practical arguments for aid, since it would maintain some U.S. influence, as against that of Russia and China, and could turn the rival forces to peaceful pursuits in accordance with the truce settlement. Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott may be right in his prediction that "after everyone has made his pitch," then Congress probably will approve the money for reconstruction...
...form that is supposed to facilitate understanding, frequently lapses into technological jargon. That fact did not seem to bother the Harvard selection committee that awarded Fuller the 1961-62 Charles Eliot Norton Professorship, a chair once occupied by T.S. Eliot. In trying to convey and assess Bucky, Hugh Kenner, a literary man who has written books on Joyce, Beckett and Pound, solves the Fuller packaging problem brilliantly. Instead of boxes, he spins a sort of geodesic Glad Bag in which Fuller's life, work and Utopian ideals are clearly and excitingly displayed, even as they are kept fresh from...
...past several years the ancient game has become the newest enthusiasm of the Bored-and-Beautiful, and its star-pointed game board has moved from the exclusive gaming rooms of Europe to the casinos of Las Vegas and the crowded parties in Hugh Hefner's Los Angeles mansion. Hefner and his friend Barbi, Bridge Star Oswald Jacoby, Ari and Christina Onassis, Prince Radziwill, Polly Bergen and Jill St. John have all discovered the social charms of backgammon: it is easy to learn, fast and exciting to play, and an enjoyable way to win, or lose, a lot of money...
Democratic and Republican speakers differed on the degree of strain between the White House and Capitol Hill. The G.O.P.'s Hugh Scott dismissed it as no more than "a degree of incivility." He added: "Nobody likes to be balanced, much less checked...