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...cold wind swept over the thick dark grass outside, whistled through the moonlit Gothic stonework, the parapets, battlements, and pinnacles intricately crowning the buildings with medieval bulk and solemnity...
Once aboard his own 707 jet, however, Haig plunged into work, poring over thick briefing books throughout the trip as his wife Patricia sat across from...
...what Weisberg and his colleagues have tried to do is re-complicate our view of the 19th century and fill in some of the details of its cultural background. In this they have succeeded very well, though at tiresome length. The pleasures of social discovery and iconographic recognition lie thick on the ground here, but they do not make up for the aesthetic tedium of most of the work on view...
...takes a thick-skinned and disciplined swimmer to thrive in Randy's program, a swimmer who can live without ever hearing a word of congratulation from the notoriously hard-to-please coach. But for the upward-bound athletes who are willing to commit their bodies and souls to Randy--like Tracy Caulkins, who will be joining her sister at Florida this fall--the results can be very heartening...
...short months the thick-skinned man who manages 550 million acres of public land has stunned environmentalists and lawmakers with the way he has decisively altered policymaking at Interior. Watt has accelerated the sale of oil and gas leases, moved to expedite the surface mining of coal, opened up wilderness areas to allow exploration of strategic minerals, halted the acquisition of more lands for national parks. He says he wants a bold, sensible program that will renew the country's growth. Says one of Watt's top aides, Stan Hulett: "Nobody could have survived making these proposals...