Word: soled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they collided. "I thought you were second base," the runner insisted. Fat chance. Second base is one of the few positions that Midge Costanza, presidential assistant and after-hours shortstop, does not play. Of the seven senior staff members at the White House, she serves as Carter's sole woman, Northerner, liberal activist and ethnic (if "ethnic" is defined as one with strong ties to a family homeland). She is an all-purpose outsider on an otherwise all-Georgia team...
...half days later, the incident had been resolved. After an intense, nine-hour negotiating session with American officials at Panmunjom, North Korea agreed to release Chief Warrant Officer Glenn Schwanke, 28, the sole survivor of the crash, and return the bodies of the three crewmen. Though the incident was caused by the "misconduct of your side," North Korea's Major General Han Chu-Kyong told U.S. Rear Admiral Warren C. Hamm Jr., "we are going to settle leniently...
...Patriotic Front wants first to take power and then hold elections. Demonstrating their ability to separate ideology and gastronomy, delegates feasted on Rhodesian beef and lamb at Libreville banquets, then approved a resolution, proposed by Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda, that virtually recognizes the Patriotic Front as the sole representative of black nationalists in Rhodesia. The front was designated as the only legitimate recipient of OAU financial...
...when young radicals took to the streets to demand abolition of the traditional admissions process that favored the well-schooled children of the middle and upper classes. Bowing to the students' pressure, the government threw open its state-run universities to anyone wishing to enroll. The sole requirements: a yearly tax of $70 and, for foreign students, a working knowledge of Italian. Since then the number of foreigners has swelled to some 50,000, adding to the swarms of working-class students taking advantage of the new opportunity. At Rome University, for example, enrollment has soared from...
Initially, Davis and Lummis appeared to be working together smoothly. Only a day after Hughes died, Davis sought out Lummis in Houston. Rather than battle the family, Davis suggested that Lummis become temporary sole stockholder of the estate, and that he join the Summa board. In August 1976, Lummis became Summa chairman at $180,000 a year. Summa Executive Vice President Frank William Gay, who commanded Hughes' Mormon Mafia of personal aides and was a Davis ally, was given the post of chief executive officer. Davis remained chief counsel and a board director...