Word: unbeknownst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White House had some aces in the hole that helped it to pull off what seemed to outsiders an astonishing turnaround. Unbeknownst to leaders of the opposition group, the Administration had the private sup port of some Senators who were not ready to commit themselves publicly for the sale. One was New Hampshire Republican Warren Rudman; nominally uncommitted, he was actually lobbying on its behalf before formally announcing his support. Another was Democrat David Boren of Oklahoma, who said he was leaning against the sale after visiting Saudi Arabia last April, but then began arguing in its favor with Democratic...
...shaping of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points. But Lippmann never did have a rigid belief in journalistic celibacy. In the nine years that he was the influential editor of Pulitzer's New York World, he promoted friends for office, plotted strategies, intrigued behind the scenes, all unbeknownst to his readers. When Al Smith ran for President in 1928, Lippmann commuted to Albany in the Governor's private railway car to coach him on foreign policy, advise him on strategy, help write his acceptance speech. Shortly before Franklin D. Roosevelt took office, the two men lunched at Warm...
...Warm Springs, Ga., in 1945 during a portrait sitting. The other is that the show tackles an aspect of F.D.R.'s life not generally known until recently. Kim Hunter shares the billing with Robards as Lucy Rutherfurd, the President's longtime friend who was with him-unbeknownst to Wife Eleanor-when he died. The historic triangle, says NBC, is handled "tastefully...