Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton and Jordan have plenty in common. They are both sons of the South, civil rights advocates, products of the 1960s who steered to the center on their path to power, world-class storytellers who like to think of themselves as capacious spirits in the crabbed and pinched Washington scene. Their banter is sexually charged. At a White House dinner in 1995, to cite an example, Clinton found himself sitting next to a statuesque blond and at one point, according to an account in Washington Monthly, turned to Jordan and jokingly told him to keep his "hands off" the woman...
...prominence in 1961 when a howling white mob tried to prevent a young woman named Charlayne Hunter from becoming one of the first blacks to enter the University of Georgia. Jordan, a law clerk of 25, used his 6-ft. 4-in. body as a battering ram, clearing a path through...
Tripp does lay it on a bit thick: Defending her allegations against cries of conspiracy, she writes: ?Because I have chosen the path of truth, I have been vilified by spokesmen for the administration I proudly serve as a political appointee.? The Pentagon staffer can hardly be said to have ?proudly served? the Clinton administration, given her frequent contact with Ken Starr and plans for a tell-all book à la Gary Aldrich. But Tripp does defend the friend she lost when those tapes went public: Lewinsky was ?a bright, caring, generous soul -- one who has made poor choices...
Students who need to get from one launching site to another when no shuttle is waiting would be strapped into the catapult while adjustments were made for wind, weather and any buildings recently constructed on the flight path. If all goes well, the student would then be flung over half of Cambridge to his or her destination, landing in a thirty-foot-wide catcher's mitt specially constructed near the other catapult. In addition to their regular duties, for the betterment of Quad-river relations, the catapult operators would be allowed to seize any river-dwelling student who is heard...
...From then on, the managing editor's business is to keep his head and to see that order and reason prevails in all matters concerning the paper and himself. Candidates come in with botched stories and wonderful excuses. All have to be attended to and set on the straight path promptly. Editors must need be coaxed into getting down to their work, and then persuaded to keep at it until they are finished. Newspaper correspondents arrive and put the unvarying question, "Is there anything tonight?" and then leave for the time being, or else go to their side room...