Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least with the FBI. After Johnson had announced that he would not seek re-election in 1968, he learned from an intelligence report that Anna Chennault, widow of famed World War II Flying Tiger General Claire Chennault and a money raiser for the 1968 Nixon campaign, had got in touch with the Saigon government. It was suspected, at the least, that she was urging them not to cooperate with Johnson in his last days, but wait for Nixon to be elected. The belief in the White House then was that a high Republican traveling with Vice Presidential Candidate Spiro Agnew...
...that would have astonished G.I.s of the past. For example, the recruit is quickly outfitted by tailors who make on-the-spot adjustments. Instead of being shorn like a lamb, the trainee can give precise orders on how his hair should be cut, as long as it does not touch his ears or collar. He dines in a style that used to be reserved for officers...
...together his calendar 18 years ago while working as a librarian at the Flint Journal. The idea was inspired by the many calls he received from reporters "looking for brighteners." Chase began hunting for mention of new events in newspaper clippings and verifying traditional ones by getting in touch with trade associations and other sponsoring groups. He then used his own small publishing concern, Apple Tree Press, to turn out the Calendar...
Enraged, Millstone, an assistant managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, went to court. There, evidence made it clear that the file-in-New York story-plus a rule that the consumer himself could not read the summary or even touch it-were standard O'Hanlon techniques for dealing with inquiries. In addition, O'Hanlon's investigator, who earned $1.85 for his efforts, actually interviewed only one neighbor and failed to verify what he was told...
...Onassis came in with her husband, mail slot and pile of mail." L.A. has long been the culture capital of suspense fiction. Boston may now be moving up. In Parker's God Save the Child, kidnapers instruct that the ransom be put in a green book bag - a touch as evocative of Boston as the swan boats in the Public Garden...