Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...animal's soul, the cutting, biting edge of its passion and life." But the wry Main, when queried about his interest in teeth, lies, "I'm a dentist." Alexander Main is a mad, comic-philosopher, who can only understand the limits to his power, as two universes leaking into each other through quasars and black holes: "the fucking laws are leaking,...God himself nothing but a slow leak, some holy puncture...
...contender, the General Accounting Office charged in September that she maintained inaccurate financial records, accepted three small corporate donations, and failed to report an $ 18,000 surplus in her campaign. No action has yet been taken by the Justice Department, but last week, apparently as the result of a leak, Chisholm was forced to answer questions about the allegations. She said that the surplus has long since been spent to pay late-arriving bills and charged that Government investigators are determined to embarrass her because she is "unbought and unbossed...
...kept calling for more food to feed them in this rare wilderness excursion. The next morning his eggs came without toast. "You fed all the bread to the deer," the chagrined President was told. One morning Dean Rusk got an angry phone call from Kennedy complaining about a news leak. Find the culprit, barked Kennedy. Rusk went to unusual lengths to trace the leak, finally called in the reporter himself for a grilling. The Secretary of State got the answer. Rusk called J.F.K. back. "I've found the leak," he told Kennedy. "It's you. Yesterday in your...
Thorn and his wife are especially sensitive to charges of unprofessional conduct. "I have already begged my husband," she insists, "not to tell me if he has anything that is really secret and important. Then, if there's a leak, no one can suspect me." When the news of a possible German currency revaluation did filter out of Luxembourg in 1969, suspicion was about to center on her until her husband admitted that he was the culprit. He had revealed the news to one of his wife's colleagues...
...Harvard were run the way many people think the federal government should be run, Corporation appointees would regularly leak materials from confidential files...