Word: palmful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administration. He is someone who is in a position usually blessed with total anonymity in a university--yet at Harvard, Hall just can't keep himself out of the news. He is front-page copy almost weekly. Whether mis-ordering storm windows, authorizing bursar cards that would require palm prints to cut down on the number of people passing them around, or airing dirty linen in the faces of other administrators, Hall is constantly at center stage--he's the Mrs. Malaprop of bureaucrats...
...Faith. He says it's a tragedy that we lost it and blames the loss on Nixon. This is hard to believe. Even Nixon couldn't be solely responsible for all the Faith that's missing. But it's a serious problem. Secretary of State Kissinger told the West Palm Beach Rotary Club last week that "our loss of Faith is no laughing matter." Kissinger said that he was unable to keep bombing Cambodia because we lost Faith. That clearly is no laughing matter. What good is a Secretary of State who can't bomb occasionally...
Despite his problems, Mitchell seems fairly ebullient. He makes amiable appearances at fancy Washington restaurants, especially the Jockey Club, the Sea Catch and the Palm. He is often accompanied by Mrs. Mary Gore Dean, a wealthy widow whose family operates restaurants and a hotel in the capital. He is drinking much less than the fifth a day he consumed at the height of the Watergate crisis. Associates suggest two reasons for Mitchell's relatively good spirits: 1) Despite Nixon's earlier efforts to get Mitchell to take full blame for Watergate, he has never turned against his former...
...palm-reading device checks finger length, finger type curvation and translucency of skin, and is considered a better form of identification than a picture...
...palm reading aspect of the system had not provoked such negative reaction, he said, his report would have recommended implementation of the system...