Word: mel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kissinger was obsessed with undermining the influence of Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Secretary of State William Rogers by denigrating them behind their backs and excluding them from major policy matters. "Cutting out Mel Laird is what we did for a living," says former Kissinger Staffer Laurence Lynn. Hersh says that Laird was bypassed in the decision to bomb Cambodia...
...entirely. Next door to the ranch, Mel, the hard-driving relaxer, is tearing up the desert to make room for a Canyon Ranch town-house development...
...East Coast Type A puffs "shoo shoo" in response to a dazzlingly fit former cheerleader's exhortation to "blow it out." The formerly flaccid Type A has lost 5 lbs. and 3 in. She has stopped smoking and can jog for 20 minutes. She agrees with Mel: "I want to feel like this forever. ' ' -By Jane O'Reilly
...them eat croissants have had burgers char broiled, burgers fried, burgers every which way. Now they are looking for something completely different." So says Mel King, manager of Vie de France, a cafe and bakery in Washington, D.C. In city after city and in-suburban shopping malls around the U.S., the croissant, a flaky pastry that has long been a staple at breakfast tables in France, has become the hottest new entrant into the $31 billion-a-year fast-food industry...
...honored, is a laconic curmudgeon who seems to hate baseball now and to have loathed the fans in his days of glory. Add on: the whisky-swigging, pot-bellied manager (Frederic Major), the clubhouse clown (William McNulty), the Hispanic outsider Jesus Luna (Dierk Toporzysek) and the multi millionaire superstar (Mel Johnson...