Word: thick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ehrlichman is a portly 205-pounder with a thick salt-and-pepper beard. He lives apart from his wife Jeanne, now in a Seattle suburb with one of their five children, and is said to squire around several Santa Fe women. He says he spends half of every day on volunteer work for schools, churches and Indians. He often visits the trout streams near Taos to fish...
...that Premier Chou En-lai engineered for them at the National People's Congress early this year (TIME cover, Feb. 3). But Chou himself, 77, has been hospitalized since May with heart disease. Chairman Mao is semiretired. He is still mentally alert at meetings with foreigners, but his thick Hunanese accent has been made more impenetrable by a speech defect. Even his interpreters must double-check with him to be sure of what he is saying...
Hall, a sixtyish-looking man who wears conservative suits, has been with the school for 35 years, serving as director for the past 20. The tall, craggy director wears thick glasses and walks with a slight stoop. He stresses that there is no relation between his name and the school's, which was drawn from the name of the building in which it was originally founded. Hall downplays his own role within the school, claiming that the board of trustees makes all the important decisions. He says that the board has three members, but declines to identify them...
...choir), she nevertheless was willing. Richardson tapped longtime associates by telephone. One warned that Ford was unlikely to win another term, so why should Richardson take up a lackluster post like Commerce in a failing Administration? Others advised that Richardson should accept the job to get back into the thick of the political action in Washington. Richardson decided...
...Bruins had a field day, the Bulldogs are back in the thick of things, and the Big Green notched the 500th victory in its illustrious football history. The wins by Brown, Yale, and Dartmouth added to the excitement at Soldiers Field over the weekend, and set the stage for the homestretch of what should be a frenzied Ivy League race...