Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...testimony demonstrated again that President Nixon was speaking most loosely when he assured the Senate Watergate committee last July that the tapes are "under my sole personal control." Miss Woods had listened to some of the recordings at the White House, at Camp David and at Key Biscayne. H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's former chief of staff, received a bundle of tapes at an aide's home in Maryland and took them to his Georgetown residence. Once described by a White House official as being stored in the residential section of the White House, the tapes were now said...
...Miss Woods obviously made an impression on Representative Nixon as well. In 1951, after he had gone to the Senate, he asked her to become his personal secretary. Now 55, Rose Woods has held that position (now elevated in title to executive assistant to the President) ever since. She is on such intimate terms with all of the First Family, in fact, that she is often called "the fifth Nixon...
...Miss Woods' cruel working hours and scant personal life have gradually been rewarded with increased responsibilities, a staff of her own (three sub-secretaries work in her office) and occasionally a chance to influence the thinking of the President. Nixon is said to regard her as a shrewd judge of politics...
...extraordinary project any American playwright has ever undertaken, a series of 20 full-length plays on the black experience in America that Bullins calls his "Twentieth Century Cycle." Comparing the five plays in the cycle already completed (In the Wine Time, In New England Winter, The Duplex, The Fabulous Miss Marie, and Home Boy) with The Reluctant Rapist it becomes painfully clear that there is no transitive law of genius between playwrights and novelists...
...been nine months since Frank opened the Harvard House of Pizza and almost 2 1/2 years since he came to the U.S. "I miss my town," Frank says. "It is 17 years since I live there." Frank is nervous when he talks, and his small hairy arms constantly gesture across the plastic tabletop to help express what his limited English finds so elusive. "I live past 12 years in other town in Greece." Frank finished high school in Thessalonika, Greece's second largest city, and then spent two years in college, where he studied to be a helicopter mechanic...