Word: talking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knocked on the door and said, "Quick, open up, close it." I opened the door, and just as I closed it, there were about five gals chasing him down the hallway, black and white, and he says "They'll tear me to pieces." He came in and we talked for about two hours. He's very intelligent, and not at all flamboyant...I had it worked out that they were going to dismiss [the draft evasion charges] if he would go around and talk to youth clubs...and also do some work for Nixon...Mitchell turned it down...Two years...
What the cult-prone people [Dec. 11] probably need are some guidelines. I suggest the following: If it sounds good, keep listening. If it begins to satisfy the inner self, take out an associate membership. If they start to talk about your money and valuables, find another cult...
...honors his memory, pronounces, "Politics is the commander, the soul of everything, and failure to grasp political and ideological work will not do." During a conference not long ago, when Hua expounded Mao's philosophy, Teng retorted, "There are those who, day in and day out, talk of nothing but Mao Tse-tung's thought while failing to grasp even its most fundamental elements: practical experience, the empirical method and the combination of theory with practice...
Still, in the solecism sweepstakes, Washington took second place to Northern California. Verbatim, the lively quarterly that eavesdrops on American conversation, quoted the San Francisco police department's program for "carrying out crime and punishment" and Bay Area talk shows that spoke of "wheel chairs and other types of illnesses," of suicide that was "self-inflicted" and of a remark that "really irated" the speaker...
...America Tackle Marty Lyons: "He's seen things in me that I didn't know were there." Adds Linebacker Barry Krauss, another of the latest crop of Alabama All-Americas (37 so far): "I love him. The biggest thrill is that I can walk in and talk to him, and he knows and cares about...