Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last January, Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott rushed out of the White House and made headlines with the announcement that he had seen documents that would prove Nixon innocent of charges that the President knew about the Watergate coverup. But those documents remain locked in White House vaults...
...Hugh B. Hester retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of Brigadier General. He is a critic of the on-campus ROTC program as well as an opponent of American Indochina policy...
...Presidency piece "Trying to Get Right with Lincoln" [Feb. 25], Hugh Sidey wrongly ascribes to Abraham Lincoln the phrase about "fighting it out on this line if it takes all summer." The phrase was Ulysses Grant's; the then ex-President made it in 1884 as he was struggling to get his memoirs into shape. At that stage...
...nights are wintry and food scarce, the coca leaves, when chewed hour after hour, help to drive out the cold and to kill one's appetite. These Aymara no longer live on the altiplano, but it is still cold at night and food is far from plentiful. Shipped in hugh quantities from the jungle, the coca sells for incredibly cheap prices; a peso (five U.S. cents) will buy you a six-ounce bag. The women sit implacably behind pyramid-like piles of the leaves, and, if one looks closely enough, it is possible to see them move the coca wads...
...Hugh McKay, head sectionman for expository writing, said yesterday that the department has had a large number of upperclassmen coming in for help. "It seemed to us that we should do something about it," McKay said...