Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...known he'd hit upon a great idea. Every day brought fresh evidence into the homes of once-trusting Americans that the President--and those who helped out around the White House--were just like you and me, only worse. Scandals, illicit relationships, incompetence, cheating, profanity--this was the stuff of the modern Commander in Chief...
...course, the anecdote gives everything and nothing. In the movies, The Story of Ronald Reagan might be built of such stuff, like the "story" of Jim Thorpe, but not a life; the life has to be discovered elsewhere. At least the facts pile up neatly: born Feb. 6, 1911, Tampico, Ill.; son of John Edward and Nelle Wilson Reagan; younger brother...
...life and the influence she wields over his schedule. She will not tolerate aides who try to overbook him or monopolize his time. Says one friend: "He is the most agreeable guy in the world, and Nancy steps in and says, 'No, no more.' She eliminates extraneous stuff...
...works as the green revolution, the transistor, antibiotics, computers: in the past few decades, all emerged rapidly and unexpectedly to alter the course of civilization. Last year a new technology, perhaps the most startling yet created by science, came of age: genetic engineering, the ability to alter the basic stuff of life...
...They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff...