Word: lincoln
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...Taking the hint, they plied him with examples of the motorized best that Western technology could offer. Brezhnev was a notoriously bad driver; yet at one time his stable included a Rolls-Royce, a Citroën-Maserati and a Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC. And Nixon remembers giving a Lincoln Continental to Brezhnev at Camp David. Brezhnev's eyes shone when he saw the car. Without warning, he waved Nixon into the front seat, took the wheel and roared off as Secret Service men looked on aghast. He and Nixon hurtled down a narrow, twisting Catoctin...
...second most honorable man this country ever produced." In a corner of the ballroom, former Presidential Aide Charles Colson and former Attorney General John Mitchell engaged in a bit of good-natured banter Ranked at 63 in Woods' compilation, Colson bested both Mitchell and former president Abraham Lincoln by four and five places, respectively. "It's an honor to see you again, John." Colson said. "Perhaps so, Charles, but it's a greater honor to see you Rose Mary says so." The two chuckled as Woods directed their attention to the former president...
...entrepreneur, had never held an elected office. His most spectacular achievement came in Viet Nam in 1969: after leading a Navy commando assault in which he lost half of his right leg, Kerrey was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. As a member of the human rights commission in Lincoln, his home town, Kerrey is remembered chiefly for his unsuccessful advocacy of a homosexual-rights ordinance. Moreover, Republican Charles Thone, 58, was the quintessential Nebraskan of his generation, prudently plain-spoken and a bit stolid. He had won four terms in Congress before becoming Governor...
Kerrey won a third of the normally Republican farm counties, as well as Omaha (54%) and the Lincoln area (61%). Even so, the state is surprised to find that it has picked such a Governor. The North Platte Telegraph was not just being snide with its headline over an editorial about Kerrey: STRANGELY, A NEBRASKAN...
WHEN I was in third grade at the New Lincoln School in Manhattan, a clever sex education teacher showed my class a movie on drugs. In the style of classics like Reefer Madness, the film showed how different drugs were produced, how people could ingest them, and their extremely nasty side effects. Heroin was fashionable at the time, so glistening hypodermics and needle-tracked arms were prominently featured, along with short biographies of celebrities who had died of overdoses. Although the effect of such films on children today has probably been greatly diffused by constant exposure to drugs...