Word: mum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mum on Money. Many politicians would agree with Baker's equally lofty estimate of his competence in the Senate. "I was such a professional in my job that I could always tell within two or three votes what the vote would be. If the President called, I could let him know within an hour. Most of the Senators would tell me." Baker also handled donations to the Democratic senatorial-campaign kitty, many of them large, unrecorded, in cash-and illegal. "I was one guy," he says, "whom they could trust not to say anything about the money...
...Black Action Movement strike this year was successfully diverted by Fleming; he supports the right of students to enroll in ROTC but he is mum on war research and other "hot" issues...
...maroon velvet, the bride wore flowers and white satin when Michael Wilding, 17, son of Actress Elizabeth Taylor and her second husband, Actor Michael Wilding, married Beth Clutter, 19. Outside London's Caxton Hall Registry, a crowd of 500 gathered to goggle at the groom's mum (in white wool pants and a rink-sized diamond) and her husband, Richard Burton (in business suit and a new slim, "off-the-sauce" look). No wedding reception, no honeymoon. "Too old-fashioned," explained a p.r. man. "These are a couple of mod kids...
...sooner had the troops entered Cambodia than Dean Ernest May, heretofore mum on the question of the war, was appearing all over the place flashing the "V" sign and urging students to follow him down to Washington and lobby for peace. Many students felt, and still feel, that lobbying in Congress is the best way to end the war. But many other students questioned the sincerity of the University's anti-war zeal, and pointed to contradictions in its stance. Harvard ROTC, for example, continued to turn out officers for the fighting overseas. Then there was the presence...
...when thrown onto grass at different angles or when spun. Now that the children's interest is aroused, there will be no stopping the questions." He was right. When only two of the 23 eggs thrown at Willson broke upon hitting the grass, his pupils were incredulous. "My mum won't understand this experiment," said a 13-year-old girl. "She is always dropping eggs, and they always break...