Word: spiros
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...Spiro M. Pavlovich III, the Law School student indicted last February for forging documents to secure admission to Harvard, has long since gone underground, but the famed hoax he allegedly perpetrated is bringing permanent changes to admissions procedures at the Law School...
...picking Bob Dole, 53, Ford signed on the most accomplished gunslinger in the party, a man who makes his points not with obloquy or the cement fist or leaden tongue of a Spiro Agnew, but with an acerbic wit that often leaves everyone but the victim laughing. Dole has characterized Senator Edmund Muskie as "a political Rip Van Winkle who awoke and started to attack Nixon," and he once dismissed former Attorney General Ramsey Clark as a "left-leaning marshmallow...
...grim prospect is that throughout the campaign, this sort of thing will be doled out regularly. So will some pretty sharp political barbs. Vice-Presidential Candidate Dole, after all, is the same man who said in 1969 that he went to visit Disneyland-and found Mickey Mouse wearing a Spiro Agnew watch. In the weeks ahead, he is likely to save such putdowns for Democrats. With Dole matched against Walter Mondale -a penetrating wit himself-the 1976 presidential campaign should be anything but dull...
Anyone who wants to feel oppressed by the English language will never be disappointed. With a vocabulary of some 750,000 words-the world's largest and richest-the language of Shakespeare and Spiro Agnew provides enough terms to offend almost everybody. Those most recently and publicly irked are the feminists. The mother tongue, as they have argued for some time, is a lexicon of male chauvinism. For years the language has evolved along the lines preferred by the male-controlled society that used...
...second thought, maybe it isn't worth reading these thriller-chillers. It sure is funny though when Spiro Agnew kills off his fictional counterparts to Walter Cronkite, Ben Bradlee, and Barbara Walters. His powers for delineating detail (with gory, sensationalistic precision) seem to reach their apex at these points in the narrative...