Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These are strange charges for Gingrich to bring, given his own spotty literary past. In the 1970s, Gingrich received $13,000 to write a book which was never published. When questioned about where the money went, Gingrich responded he spent it to "do research in Europe...
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...themselves in an apartment that has carpeting, heat and hot food. Are they being fattened up in preparation for their release? Despite the constant disappointments, Anderson is determined to think about his future. He ponders quitting journalism to take up farming. At last on May 3, after he has spent more than three years as a hostage, his time appears to have come when a guard tells him to get ready...
...other shortcoming is a lack of experience: though he spent five years on the House Select Committee on Intelligence, he has never been a member of the Armed Services panel, has never performed military service or worked at the Pentagon. But in the wake of the Tower tempest, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle anticipate a quiet and speedy Senate review. "This time it will be a confirmation," said Senate minority leader Robert Dole, "not an execution...
...checkbook while traveling is one thing. It is quite another to own only a student card identifying me as a student of the Urals Polytechnical Institute. This taught me a lot, for instance, when I traveled on the roof of a railroad car without a ticket, when I spent the night in sheds with poor and homeless people. That is how I traveled, although it seems impossible to imagine...