Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dignitaries. Suddenly, Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing departed from the traditional script. He impulsively grabbed Jimmy Carter's hand and held it high. They looked like a pair of politicians just nominated by a national convention, and there was little doubt about which man thought he was running at the head of the ticket...
...voice that often quavered, Kissinger declared: "That Nelson Rockefeller is dead is both shattering and nearly inconceivable. One thought him indestructible ... When the phone call came last Friday, it seemed that our relation ship had just started. And now it was already ended." Rockefeller, continued Kissinger, was "full of the moment and yet always somehow marked by destiny. He often seemed remote because he was already living in the future, which most of us had not yet understood . . . His failure to reach the presidency was in my view a tragedy for the country, yet I never heard him express even...
Another misconception had been caused by Rocky himself. He was not as healthy as people thought. In fact, he was being treated for heart disease brought on by hardening of the arteries, but he had not wanted to tell his family...
...crusade against the shops, in Westfield, Mass., began when a horrified friend showed some pipes and smoking paraphernalia he had found in his twelve-year-old son's bureau to City Councilor Charles Medeiros. "I had thought those things were illegal," Medeiros said. He proposed an ordinance, which passed unanimously, requiring such stores to get licenses. Mayor Gary Lynch, who reluctantly signed the law, commented, "It strikes me as cutting off the branches instead of the roots...
Coach Carole Kleinfelder was pleased with the win, but thought the hoopsters could have played better...