Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take a public stand on it. So O'Neill pledged to link the pay raise with something he felt Congress needed even more: a code of ethics. This would seek to change the public perception that members of Congress devote less than full time to their jobs and pick up a lot of money from special interests in the form of generous speaking honorariums, lawyer's fees, gifts to secret office slush funds and occasionally outright graft and fraud...
From that first taste of fame I was hooked, I had to have "ink." On into high school the peculiar malady stuck with me. The morning after every game I would pick up the paper and scan the sports pages for the recap of our game--and for my name. After the season I would re-enact each game from the written record provided by our friendly sportswriter...
Connally is in danger right now of slipping into elder statesman status. Most Republican leaders, Gerald Ford among them, probably suspect he has yet to tell all about his Watergate ties, and so are afraid to pick him as a national candidate. (Hence Robert Dole.) During the election Republicans utilized Connally's ties to big money more than they did his campaigning ability. Ford even offered him the chairmanship of the party last year, but Connally declined this one-way ticket to the backstage and out of the national spotlight. Connally is too ambitious to be sent...
...only the peasants still doffed their caps to the Duke's grave and abolished those categories...I mean, you must surely have endured exhaustive, exhausting discussions about X (who "one could never demean by comparing to Chick Corea, Coltrane, McLaughlin, Gillespie," whoever--pick your villain) and his "progressive" jazz that's trail blazing so fast they use dynamite to clear out the way to new enlightenment...
Springtime is the time for birds, bees, young love. But not in Boston. In Boston it's springtime for H-tler. In Boston it's a whole 'nother smoke. It's a different ballgame--springtime rock howls in like a crewcut pick-up truck full of rednecks full of Pabst and Seconal. Scary...