Word: matings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vice President," said Nixon, "and particularly in the performance of the duties that he has had as Vice President and as a candidate for Vice President." That seemed to leave rather large chunks of Agnew's past-indeed, his whole climb prior to becoming Nixon's running mate in 1968-for the Vice President to defend...
...they see the same swingy plays and movies as everyone else; they read the same magazine articles earnestly explaining how the multitudes have abandoned the old taboos. So one from Column A (Carmine Ciardi) and one from Column B (Lynne Lipton) feel a certain social obligation to try mate swapping...
...novel combines a Daschiell Hammett-like style of describing criminal relationships, and Raymond Chandler's brand of hard-edged realism. The plot unfolds in layer after layer of bluntly detailed incidents. Each incident is as carefully regulated as a move in a chess game, for check and mate means pay-off, jail, or death...
...food poisoning and mouse-nibbled documents in the Supreme Court, Melbourne health authorities have ordered all-out war on the city's mice. "Even pet mice must go," decreed Dr. Adrian Palmieri, the city's senior district health officer. "They breed like the rest and will mate with wild mice if they get the chance...
White masterfully conveys those few instances in the campaign when real drama flared, including the selection and dumping of Thomas Eagleton as McGovern's running mate. But like the election, the book belongs to Richard Nixon. The President strides into China, and in the moment of a handshake with Chou Enlai, "China was erased as the enemy...