Word: swivelling
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...Clemente, the heavy surf pounding below Richard Nixon's clifftop redoubt was shrouded by the early morning fog last week, and inside his secluded den the President was perhaps more solitary than ever before. With a swivel of his big chair, he could have seen for himself what his former aide, John Dean, was saying before the Senate Watergate committee. But the television screen remained blank...
...depth interviews with the TIME panelists reveal, however, that McGovern is still hurting from a "wishy-washy" image. John Collins, a Republican tele phone-company engineer from Livingston, N.J., chose the word swivel-necked to describe the Democratic challenger. "He finds out that the public doesn't like what he said, so he changes it," says Collins. Asked what would worry her about McGovern as President, Virginia Brock, a Martinsville, Va., schoolteacher and Republican for Nixon replies: "The fact that he is indecisive." The taint of radicalism continues to haunt the Democratic challenger. Ronald Baker, an Arlington, Texas, helicopter...
...piano playing was excellent, particularly the honky tonk chording on "How Blue Can You Get." The song was made by B.B.'s strutting on the famous bridge. "Bought you a brand new Ford, you wanted a Cadillac. Bought you a ten dollar dinner, (swivel the hips, here) you said. "Thanks for the snack...
...showed up in Reykjavik, Iceland, for his best-of-24-game match with World Champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union (TIME, July 17). But he was still bellyaching. He griped about the lights and the chessboard at Reykjavik's Sports Hall, and he ordered his own $500 swivel chair to be air-freighted from the U.S. Even after the start of the first game -for which he arrived seven minutes late-he staged a 35-minute walkout because, he said, he was distracted by an almost invisible camera 150 ft. away...
What was Ted Kennedy up to? Two weeks back he set Democratic swivel chairs spinning by confiding to the Boston Globe's Martin Nolan that if his presence on a ticket headed by George McGovern would "make a difference" in Democratic chances, he would accept the vice-presidential nomination...