Word: swivels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second day of his crossexamination, the usually dour Mitchell was so jauntily confident that he winked at newsmen as he entered the courtroom, then leaned back in the swivel chair on the stand with all the casual but tough authority he used to exude when he was the President's chief political strategist as well as his top law-enforcement officer. It simply never occurred to him, insisted Mitchell, that Vesco had given the $200,000 in order to get help in his struggle with the Securities and Exchange Commission (which eventually charged Vesco and 41 associates with perpetrating...
Close associates said it wasn't the injury as much as Carter knowing he might never win another race and that his once flashy knee action would be but a creaky echo of his former "lightening swivel...
...about the same age who is dressed in frayed blue jeans and a loose blouse. It is painfully obvious to the diners who have observed their entrance that she is wearing no bra, and the man with the blueberry cream follows the couple closely, rotating slowly on his swivel chair at the counter, until they have seated themselves in one corner of the restaurant. A waitress shakes her head and clicks her tongue. "Will you look at that," she chides, and retires into the kitchen. A majority of the customers appear to make a few comments on the arrivals before...
...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...