Word: tidal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Ford's skiing endeavors had produced no bone-breaking, side-splitting anecdotes and the excitement of the Tidal Basin affair had pretty well ebbed, so when the National Collegiate Athletic Association descended on Washington recently for its annual convention the conversation of the Capital turned to jock talk...
Like Socrates. Indeed the revelry that led to the Tidal Basin dunking of Stripper Fanne Foxe and Mills' onstage appearance with her at Boston's Pilgrim Theater, a burlesque house, were unusual behavior for the 65-year-old Congressman. Such escapades led to his ouster as Ways and Means chairman...
...time zones begin, it arrived precisely one second late. For official timekeepers everywhere, including the National Bureau of Standards in the U.S., the delay was significant. The earth's rotation (which forms the basis of time units-hours, minutes, seconds) is gradually slowing down-largely because of tidal friction. For that reason, the timekeepers decided a few years ago to make an occasional correction by inserting a so-called leap second. In that way, the accurate atomic clocks that they rely on to keep the exact time do not get ahead of the less dependable earth. Since leap seconds...
...there is something fortifying to society's conscience to know the worst about its leaders as well as the best. Somehow the Tidal Basin affair and its aftermath let us know more about the most powerful Congressman in the land than we had ever known before. He was not just the accomplished master of the legislative process, as we had presumed. He was also old Wilbur Mills, with all the temptations and weaknesses of any other man, and perhaps more...
...strong girl. I was never bothered by other people unless I did something myself I didn't consider right. Only when I saw that I hurt somebody's feelings, when I did something to make myself look ridiculous or not ladylike, like when I fell in the Tidal Basin, do I feel guilty. The next day I just couldn't sleep and I have been thinking ever since. It was just a stupid accident, but it happened...