Word: leaks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jesus, I thought, You mean that this woman has lived sixty-odd years thinking that her presence in rooms causes the ceilings to leak...
...next crisis was the remnants of my bag lunch; it was beginning to leak. Since I couldn't bring myself to eat any more of the wieners then, I was forced to throw them out. It was like putting a little bit of Ralph Cahaly in the trash can at Maverick, one of the best stations in the whole system, by the way. I liked it so much (partically because it was a free switch) that I went there 15 times during the day, frequently shuttling between Government Center and Maverick three times in a row. That killed 50 minutes...
...President are the kind of documents that inspire huzzahs of approval or howls of censure, depending upon the perspective of the reader. They also seem to have wide appeal and, unlike most private memos, actually reach millions. Lately, Moynihan's flamboyant prose has somehow managed to leak right past the President and into the public domain...
...phrase that will undoubtedly cling to Moynihan and the Nixon Administration. The President liked the memorandum and asked for its wide circulation. It went to three other White House assistants, four Cabinet members, and no fewer than 25 copies circulated around HEW, where, Moynihan suspects, the leak occurred. Reaction from liberals was swift. Twenty-one civil rights leaders made a highly emotional public reply, complaining that the memo was a "flagrant and shameful political document." It all depended on how the memo was read: it was, after all, written in the context of White House infighting; it could easily...
...Eliot House Senior Common Room was damaged Sunday night by steam escaping from a broken radiator. The steam damaged several valuable paintings and antiques in the room before Building and Grounds officials discovered the leak...