Word: minding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long one. I still bowl and go uptown for a few beers every day, and I'm not hurting." But some miners have been feeling the pinch and have been relying on food stamps for groceries; others consider food stamps beneath their dignity. "I don't mind welfare benefits from the union," says a Masontown miner, though no strikers have received any benefits from the depleted funds. "But welfare from Uncle Sam is out. A lot of us would rather keep our pride and go a little hungry. That's the way we were brought up, proud...
...detected at least five, and probably nine, starts and stops in the erasure. Haldeman claims he later was "confused" when Nixon referred to the gap as "Rose's 18 minutes"-but that could easily have been the President's way of shifting blame in Haldeman's mind to Rose Mary Woods, who claimed to have accidentally erased at most five minutes of this tape...
...sacrifice ourselves, if necessary, to save the presidency that we believed in." The coverup, in short, was not such an evil to Bob Haldeman that he would refuse to try it again if he thought he could make it work. Says he: "There is absolutely no doubt in my mind today that if I were back at the starting point, faced with the decision of whether to join up, even knowing what the ultimate outcome would be, I would unhesitatingly...
Explaining the abstraction of his works, Motherwell added, "I don't have a serial mind. "I can't think in time. I can't remember in a straight line...
English novelist Charles Dickens must have had last Saturday's performance of the Harvard varsity wrestling team in mind when he wrote "It was the best of times and it was the worst of times...