Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Eventually one man, a tall black, dressed in a three-piece suit with a watch-chain strung across his vest, stopped. He examined my piddling collection, and picked up Joyce. Now, I was kind of partial to that album, and I wasn't kind of partial to that album, and I wasn't even sure I wanted to part with it. This guy wanted to buy it for 50 cents. He started telling me in this hasal tone about Joyce as if he were some expert, so I told him either to pay the money or leave. He paid...
Kissinger's close-to-the-vest style proved nearly disastrous when it came to dealing with South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu, who had been kept in the dark about the negotiations. In a hand-holding visit to Saigon in July 1972, Kissinger made no mention of his concessions to the Communists on troop withdrawals and the tripartite commission. He said merely that with an election coming, the Administration would have to put on a show of serious negotiating for a while, but that it would be "a different story" after a Nixon win. Implying that...
Coggan began his career in a working-class parish, and as a bishop has kept contact with ordinary folk by visiting breweries, mines and shipyards. He occasionally dons a cassock, but generally wears a simple pin-stripe suit with purple vest. Says he: " 'Your Grace' and all that doesn't mean very much to me. It's not the label on the bottle but what's inside that matters...
Answering Cables. Kissinger has gathered an energetic, able team of aides and advisers, including Winston Lord, 36, head of his planning and coordination staff, Department Counselor Helmut Sonnenfeldt, 47, Executive Assistant Lawrence Eagleburger, 43, and Press Aide George Vest, 55. He has be gun to pluck more talent out of the State Department to augment this group. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. Sisco, 54, the longtime Middle East expert, was persuaded to back out of a college presidency (Hamilton College in upstate New York) and was promoted to the No. 3 spot, Under Secretary for Political Affairs...
Powers said the meet was the team's best performance of the year. Radcliffe's purchase the week before of electric foils used in modern fencing competition made the difference, he said. When the new foils touch the opponents vest, a lighted board registers the score...