Word: wagonned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...again. "Out of 3,000 alcoholics treated at this hospital and another 12,000 consulted, I have never seen one return safely to social drinking," says Richard Weedman, head of an alcoholic treatment center at Chicago's Grant Hospital. "One drink won't push him off the wagon, but if he takes another three weeks later, bang! He's gone...
Drinking, borrowing money, being arrested repeatedly, at 27 he was so far gone that he was not able to write his name. In December 1948 he went to Alcoholics Anonymous but fell off the wagon after only two months. In March he was back in A.A., and has been going to meetings ever since...
...Your story on Mr. Nixon's counsel James St. Clair is well done: he is a good man doing a tough job. As the indictments continue to roll in and the wagon trains start to encircle the White House, however, it becomes increasingly evident that Mr. Nixon omitted perhaps the most powerful "enemy" of all from his list: truth...
...grandfather crossed the plains to Montana in a covered wagon, and Chester Robert Huntley's childhood was spent on the raw edge of America's last frontier. The rugged spirit he absorbed from his family and the land prepared him to cultivate the unfilled fields of electronic journalism. As co-anchor man of NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report for 14 years, he became one of the country's most recognizable celebrities while earning respect for his skill as a newsman. When he left NBC in 1970, he returned to Montana, and it was there that...
...giving the Rodino committee what it wants, Scott, too, is opposed to "fishing expeditions," but he does not believe that the committee is on one. Noting White House objections to anyone backing a truck up to the White House for files, Scott suggests: "How about a station wagon...