Word: loneliest
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...range of exhausted volcanoes." In the past couple of years, Watergate and its players have seemed similarly defunct: the political passions of the scandals expired, parole boards and literary agents tidying up like janitors, attending to the last details. And now, again, Nixon reappears, one of the strangest, loneliest, most complicated and interesting political figures in American history...
...balancing of allies who have little, if anything, in common. These allies are bound to grow impatient with one another and especially with Carter. As that happens, Carter is bound to discover, as many have before him, that the nation's most powerful job can also be the loneliest...
...easily the best guitarist in the Northeast," Dave Sidman, chairman of the Winthrop House Folk and Jazz Society, the concert sponsors, said yesterday. (Of course, I am told Sidman is given to statements like "Massachusetts is easily the best state in the Union," and "One is easily the loneliest number there could ever be.") But this time he could be right. Berkeleetrained Van Duser specializes in finger-picking--bluegrass, jazz, classical, and an incredible version of "Stars and Stripes Forever" in which he simultaneously plays bass, melody, and piccolo parts. Novick, who played with David Bromberg for a few years...
...loneliest spot in the world" is what some of the American guards call Checkpoint Three. It is located at the southern end of the Bridge of No Return, over which North and South Korean prisoners were exchanged as part of the agreement that ended the Korean War in 1953. Near by stands the bleak compound of Quonset huts and wooden buildings where the LJ.N. and North Korean commands hold their Military Armistice Commission meetings...
...roll-call vote on the abuse of powers article, only ten Republicans stood with the President-their loneliest position throughout the committee's days of voting. When Article III, citing Nixon for his failure to comply with eight subpoenas covering 147 taped conversations, was voted on, five Republicans rejoined the solid ten in opposing it. Originally proposed as one of the abuses of power under the second article, this charge was separated by committee Democrats largely in deference to Republican McClory, who felt strongly about it and whose vote the Democrats wanted on Article...