Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with defiant, dark eyes. He is a big man, with broad shoulders, hard features, shaved Muslim head hidden by a blue stocking cap. A dark scar runs from his left cheek to his ear, from a "cutting" two years ago. His rust-colored cardigan is open and reveals a ring on a brass chain. Satisfied with the press card, he says, "They look for excuses to play with me. I try not to give them...
...five months since Senator Edmund Muskie started going all out to get the Democratic presidential nomination, his candidacy has steadily gained momentum. There were some rough months for Muskie when he ran short of campaign cash. Now, however, he looks increasingly like the man who will grab the brass ring at Miami Beach in July. In Las Vegas, Soothsayer Jimmy ("the Greek") Snyder is giving 2 to 5 odds that Muskie will be the nominee...
Died. Erhard Milch, 79, protégé of Hermann GÖring who helped set up the Luftwaffe; in Lüneburg, West Germany. Milch organized flying schools and glider clubs during the period in which Germany was barred by treaty from having an air force. He also became managing director of Lufthansa during the '20s. GÖring valued his talent and loyalty so highly that he arranged to have Milch's Jewish paternity officially denied (his mother was non-Jewish). During World War II, Milch was made Luftwaffe chief of staff, a cabinet member...
...because she is too far gone to recognize the hellish landscape that surrounds her. She gives chase to several louts (one hopes that feminism will not entirely eliminate the attractive male character from women's writing) and becomes disastrously entangled in Biscuit's campaign for a wedding ring...
Clearly a medium of the Nixonian message has been applied to Madison Avenue. Improved make-up and stylized lighting have erased his five o'clock shadow and Nixon-speak--Vietnamization, Phase II, incursion, game plan--and alliterative Agnewese ring in the inner ear. But no amount of pancake and greasepaint and well-placed Fresnels could gloss Nixon's profound physical gracelessness. There is a fatal slowness about the man that pervades his surprise announcements on national television with the forced enthusiasm and unsuccessful electricity of Ed Sullivan bringing on Baldy Laird and his Vietnamese Dancing Bear as the headliner...