Word: tilling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emphatically claimed that "no man or no woman [in this Administration] ever profited at the public expense or the public till." A good many questions may still be asked on this score-on that very day, John Connally, his former Secretary of the Treasury, arraigned in Washington's federal court on charges of bribery and other crimes-but in any case it was largely beside the point. It has long been obvious that the real and profound corruption of the Nixon Administration consisted of the abuse of power and the violation of the Constitution rather than mere greed...
...proud of you. In five and a half years, no man or no woman came into this Administration and left it with more of this world's goods than he came in. No man or no woman ever profited at the public expense, or the public till. That tells something about you. Mistakes, yes. But for personal gain, never. You did what you believed in, sometimes right, sometimes wrong, and I only wish that I were a wealthy man-ha! At the present time I've got to find a way to pay my taxes...
...that "the lives of all German youths belong solely to Adolf Hitler," and undertook to train his charges ("physically, spiritually and morally") to follow the Führer unquestioningly. After the Anschluss (annexation of Austria), Hitler farmed him out to be Gauleiter (district leader) of Vienna, where he remained till war's end. At Nuremberg in 1946, Von Schirach was convicted of complicity in the murder of 50,000 Austrian Jews and spent 20 years at Berlin's Spandau prison...
...lost in them. It was sort of like finding God," says Phyllis. "I haven't been so happy since. You sat around and said, 'Oh, Ohhhhhhhh, The Beatles!' My parents said, 'It's a phase, you'll outgrow it,' but I said, 'Never, never.' It was my whole life till they broke up. That was the end of an era. It was my childhood ending. Since then, there's been nothing. You just go to work and sleep...
...minute. He is about to let go and he hears a voice, loud and gleeful, come right out of the stands clear across to him: "Hey, man-you're the fourth-best guard in the league right now, and you ain 't movin' up 'till somebody dies!" Frazier blows the shot right there...