Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Baker, a member of the Senate Watergate committee, declared that the "legalisms and narrow issues" adopted by Nixon had hurt rather than helped his survival chances and that he must surrender all "relevant" evidence to the Rodino committee. One of Nixon's most vocal supporters, Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott, has also privately warned Nixon through the President's chief Watergate counsel, James St. Clair, that the President must yield all relevant evidence...
...surprisingly, as the Commons assembled on Budget Day last week, its mood was far different from the palmy days of Empire, when members turned out in top hats and tails. Two young Tory M.P.s, Hugh Dykes and Robert Adley, tried to capture the mood by appearing in blue Mao jackets-appropriately austere attire, as one of them explained, for "the first socialist budget of our parliamentary careers...
...million people with its own language, democratic tradition and legal system, but without so much as a single self-governing political body. "We have an entire nation that has been submerged into believing it is inferior," says Author Robert Shirley, 46, of Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University. Recalls Hugh MacDiarmid, the country's greatest living poet: "When I was in school, you were punished if you lapsed into the Scots dialect. You were never taught much more about your own country than, of course, what a great thing it was to have been handed over to the greater...
...Hollywood mansion? A millionaire's resort? Actually, these solaces and services are available on an airplane so sumptuously fitted that it makes Hugh Hefner's vaunted black Bunny-a DC-9 -look like steerage. The world's most luxurious aircraft is Starship I, a maroon and gold Boeing 720 that rents for $2,500 per hour or $5 per mile (whichever comes higher) and is patronized exclusively by musical groups, who are about the only people these days who can afford such prices. They apparently like what they get: Starship is booked solid for the rest...
...some months now, Hugh Downs has been proclaiming on national television that he got 19.7 m.p.g. driving a Ford LTD from Phoenix to Los Angeles. Cadillac advertises that its cars get up to 15.8 m.p.g., and Oldsmobile claims 17.6 m.p.g. for its Cutlass...