Word: spill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speech grows softer and less articulate, intimates say, when he does not like the questions being put to him. "His mumble becomes decidedly worse when he has to talk to Congress," notes one old friend. Anne Armstrong, chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, explains that Casey "doesn't spill his guts to anybody without a reason. If we don't ask the right question, we won't get the correct answer." One Congressman who grilled the CIA chief observed, "Casey talked like he was on trial...
While Craig's family is very supportive, and her younger siblings now aspire to Harvard, she says after she left for college her older siblings "expected me to be different--as if when I cut myself, blue blood would spill...
Scanning Matisse's rooms is like reading a distinguished, reticent autobiography, written before the days when authors were expected to spill all the beans. The calm they radiate is best understood not as an expression of complacency but as a ploy against anxiety. Nice enabled Matisse to stabilize things, to remain in the same frame of mind for days on end. "After a half century of hard work and reflection the wall is still there," he wrote to a friend. "Nature -- or rather, my nature -- remains mysterious. Meanwhile I believe I have put a little order in my chaos...
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...August, Chevron had the $25 million, Japanese-built drilling rig pulled across the Pacific, intending to set it up near the Channel Islands National Park. But last week the California coastal commission refused for a second time to give Chevron the go-ahead, partly because of fears that a spill could threaten the park's brown pelicans. Chevron is appealing the decision to Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige. Meanwhile, the company is racking up $200,000 a day in towing charges...