Word: messing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he can get away from the White House, Rumsfeld, a devoted family man, spends almost all his time with his wife and their children-Valerie, 19, Marcy, 15, and Nicholas, 8. Ever since Mrs. Rumsfeld complained that he was dropping $100 a month in the White House mess, Rumsfeld has been lunching on a brown-bagged sandwich brought from home. He has no substantial personal wealth, and Mrs. Rumsfeld works in a Georgetown dress shop, the Dorcas Hardin shop, to help with family finances. One advantage of the new Cabinet post is that he will get a raise, from...
...Maureen Dean, the china doll of the televised Watergate hearings, claims that this is her life-with a couple of small complications. For one thing, she was dragged into and out of that mess by the same man: Presidential Counsel John Dean. For another, Mo makes it perfectly clear that she was not born yesterday. At 25, the ex-stewardess and daughter of a onetime Ziegfeld chorine had been married twice and was a frequent nightclub companion of Hollywood swingers. As she tells it, when one engagement soured, Mo cannily retained a lawyer and had the ring appraised...
...York further alienated the conservatives, stepping up the pressure on Ford to dump him in 1976. Moreover, New York's plight tarnishes his creative if extravagant record as Governor from 1958 through 1973 because New York State must share the blame for the city's financial mess. As Governor, Rockefeller could have blocked some of the financing gimmicks, such as unsound short-term borrowing, that got the city in trouble...
...otherwise are foolhardy. Having grown up in a high rape area in New York City, and having escaped untouched, I used to scorn women who took (reasonable) precautions. "They can smell you're scared," I used to chide them, "You're turning yourself into an easy prey." Nobody would mess with a strapping 6-ft. woman like me, I used to think. But I was very wrong...
...hell did you mess it up in that game?" the coach said. McInally smiled. People will ask him about that game last summer for a long time-- in part because the way he broke his leg has the ring of Doonesbury...