Word: staggers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...takes no extrasensory perception to divine the public mood, though Beatrice Schmidt, a parapsychologist in Greentree, Pa., predicts that Nixon may "stagger along for a year and then resign." Others give him less time. W. Harry Sayen, G.O.P. chairman in Mercer County, N.J., thinks that Nixon loyalists have tried to "hang on and hang on to his believability. But something snapped after the Cox debacle...
...capsulized in the answer given in 1940 to a frightened two-year-old who asked about the loud noises he was hearing. "Bombs, dear," said Nanny. "Elbows off the table." The last thing a very drunk nanny-generation Englishman does before passing out, the author reports, "is to stagger round his room, frequently falling over, trying to fold up his clothes, put shoe trees in his shoes and finally, now probably being sick but despite this, cleaning his teeth...
...think they have dealt badly with our honor and trust," complains Pat. Craig Gilbert "left out all the joyous, happy hours of communication and fun." "It's a caricature," says Lance, who is already writing his own version of the filming. "My father is perpetrated as a stagger-on drunk and I'm shown as a swish...
...everything up. Under the circumstances, it is a reasonably unwise thing to do, and she pays for it, lying moaning for a few days in a Toronto apartment while her friends move on to San Francisco for another gig. Duke, meanwhile, goes to pieces, athletically, and the Maple Leafs stagger downward in the NHL standings to the point where they must defeat the Vancouver Canucks in the season's final game to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs...
...best when he describes the fires he has fought. In scene after scene the men of Company 82 race up the stairs of flaming tenements, hose-whip tornadoes of dark orange flame, crawl through smoke as thick as gravy, groping for bodies, stagger out with a tragic load of suffocated mothers and babies, then puke black phlegm all over the pavement. Many victims, it is true, are brought out alive-Engine Co. 82 performs prodigies of rescue every...