Word: hushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Good Day. Considered third in the contest, Clark is hoping for a rerun of his surprise victory in the 1974 senatorial primary. He still roams the streets in his Hush Puppies and narrow ties, chatting with voters if they are in a mood to listen, blending into the crowd if they are not. "You can't communicate very well on the street," he admits. "All you can say is, 'Hello. Have a good day.' " He has churned out position papers on every conceivable issue to appeal to thinking liberals, but their hearts mostly belong to Bella...
...delivery. Then Ford started running through the speech before a camera connected to a video-tape recorder and played back the tape so that he could watch his own performance. His coaches managed to minimize some of his idiosyncrasies-stumbling over words, dropping his voice to a melodramatic hush inappropriate to the context, exaggerating rhetorical flourishes in a way that made them seem artificial...
...legal defense against charges arising from his publication of the Pentagon Papers; 3) attempted to obstruct a Justice Department investigation into the burglary of the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist, Lewis Fielding; 4) concealed evidence of unlawful activities by his White House and campaign staffs; and 5) approved hush-money payments to Watergate Conspirator E. Howard Hunt...
...bream that were swimming around. Later, Carter and other amateur cooks dredged the fish in corn meal, deep fried the catch over open coals for 15 minutes in boiling peanut oil (of course), piled it into brown paper bags to absorb the fat and then dished it up with hush puppies, coleslaw and home-grown tomatoes...
...Throat operated in the White House, which knew about Hunt before the FBI did and about the tape erasures before the Justice Department, the courts and the special prosecutor did. Some at the White House also knew about the special $350,000 secret fund at C.R.P. eventually used as hush money for the Watergate burglars long before investigators...