Word: tidal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Arkansas. But that was before his recent misadventure. Last week Mills emerged from nine days of nursing his abrased dignity and flew home. On the plane, a CBS reporter questioned Mills about his Argentine-born friend Annabella Battistella, 38, the onetime stripper who wound up in Washington's Tidal Basin after dashing from Mills' car. "Was there anything between you and the young lady?" asked the reporter. "No," replied the Congressman, "I ought to be flattered at my age of 65 for anybody to ask me such a question...
...week, the 1973 Lincoln Continental bore five people toward the Jefferson Memorial. Among them was an odd couple: an intoxicated, aging man with a badly scratched face and bloody nose and a hysterical, curvaceous woman. When police halted the car, the woman leaped out and jumped into the nearby Tidal Basin, a 10-ft.-deep estuary of the Potomac River. The man stumbled out after her, just before an officer dragged her to safety. When the police refused to let him drive her home, the man shouted: "I'm a Congressman, and I'll have you demoted...
...purposes other than energy. We can produce some 70,000 petrochemical products-something we cannot do with nuclear, solar or geothermal energy. Let us believe in interdependence. We all live on one planet that has only 50 years of oil reserves but 400 years of coal and unlimited solar, tidal and geothermal energy. Iran's interests would be much better served if we left some extra oil underground...
...years as a law student and football coach at Yale, where he almost married a model ("Nothing quite so frivolous has since intruded on his well-regulated life," we are assured), through his election to Congress in 1948 and his ascension to the House minority leadership. Only after this tidal wave of anecdote are we given any glimpse of Ford's political attitudes, and then it comes in the form of a separate box and provided with less than half the space devoted to his biography. Meanwhile, four pages of color photos depict Gerald Ford eating breakfast with his family...
...What's going on now has the impact of a tidal force." That was one senior presidential adviser's description of the multiple and multiplying assaults on the presidency of Richard Nixon last week. Each day brought bad news about hard fact and worse rumors about impending defections in Congress of the men and women on whose verdict Nixon's lease in office hangs. The White House staff seemed to have no strategy or ideas on how to stem the onslaught...