Word: shorthand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well aware of the existence of her younger rival, whom she disdainfully alluded to in a letter to Tarnower. "If it's any help, darling," she wrote, "I can find someone who would be thrilled to give the same 24-hour door-to-door services, and take shorthand, too." Chiding him for his "unconstitutional" chauvinism, she wrote, in a more serious vein: "If one of the few women you do admire [listing a group of New York's prominent women] were to adopt the male equivalent of Lynne as lover and richly rewarded boy Friday, you wouldn...
...reserves that job for himself, endlessly scribbling passages on 4-in. by 6-in. index cards, which he shuffles into new arrangements to vary the standard speech that he delivers at every town hall and country club: he blames some of his fluffs on difficulty in reading his own shorthand...
...Them," "They" are the Opposition, those dedicated to the end of "Christian-style civilization." Society publications usually call them "the Insiders," a form of shorthand. No one ever clarifies, however, who "they" are. Several recent publications offered the following villains: Jimmy Carter, homosexuals, the Trilateral Commission, the CIA, the big oil companies, the Democratic Party, the Ford Foundation, the Council on Foreign Relations, and most of all, the United Nations. The society itself. McManus points to a huge stack and says these are among the eight million petitions he has ready for distribution with the aim of removing the United...