Word: manly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Useful thoughts come from the nation's top kibitzer on Washington's K Street, Henry Kissinger. 1) the American President still has more discretionary power in the short run than any other man in the world, and 2) maintaining political authority through which the power is brought to bear is far more difficult over the extended course...
Pressler has brought along an inventor named Alexander Hamilton and his homemade "gasohol" still, an odd assemblage of galvanized buckets and tubs and funnels. Hamilton (no kin to the patriot) is a pleasant man with wire-rimmed glasses, mutton-chop whiskers, and the dirty fingernails of a chronic tinkerer. As Pressler watches proudly, Hamilton pours fermented corn mash into his contraption, plugs in an electric cord, and begins adjusting valves. A tiny stream of alcohol squirts into a plastic bucket. The odor of the alcohol mingles in the room with the disquieting scent of dementia...
...supervisor for eight years and a former head of the city's finance committee, Kopp campaigned aggressively as the man who could solve San Francisco's recent fiscal problems. Feinstein argued that she had united a diverse city after Moscone's death. But in the end, old-fashioned political organizing and the wooing of minorities turned out to be more important than issues. Feinstein's liberal record won her the support of blacks. She also got the strong backing of the gay community by promising to appoint homosexuals to city boards and commissions in proportion...
...perfect setting for EJ.'s Queen Anne furniture. At night, the street was softly illuminated by gaslight. Then E.J.'s luck began to change. First someone ripped the radio out of her sports car. Then, in mid-November, a far more serious episode occurred: a bearded man in his 20s broke into the house and raped her. Her reaction was bizarre. "If I had to be raped," she told a friend, "I'm glad that he was the man who did it. He didn't abuse me. He didn't threaten me. He was gentle...
Seoul's 600,000-man armed forces were promptly placed on full alert, and tanks took up positions at major government buildings. The Carter Administration expressed alarm over the developments. "It's a power play, the three stars against the four stars," said a high official. U.S. Ambassador William Gleysteen Jr. was ordered to convey a tough message to the Korean brass: Keep your hands off politics or risk a grave rupture in U.S. relations. For the time being, at least, that warning held. President Choi, for his part, sought to show that his political timetable was unchanged...