Word: washing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tightly gripped the flower-bedecked lectern, and he occasionally mispronounced words. Still, cheers drowned out the boos when he said that he had furnished "all the relevant evidence" needed "to get Watergate behind us" and promised "to stay on this job." On Saturday, Nixon opened Expo '74 in Spokane, Wash., where he was welcomed with a few impeachment signs...
...have to wash the money. You can get $100,000 out of a bank, and it all comes in serialized bills...
...members and guests of the Mississippi Economic Council when he predicted better days ahead for the nation (see THE PRESIDENCY). Nixon was scheduled to address a group of Republicans in Phoenix, Ariz., this Friday and attend the opening of the 1974 World's Fair in Spokane, Wash., on Saturday. In counterpoint last week a largely youthful crowd of 7,500 people, many bused in from other cities, marched peacefully down the capital's Constitution Avenue demanding Nixon's impeachment...
...doctor does not diagnose the cause of my medical complaint within 30 seconds as having something to do with pregnancy, I win that round. My consolation prize at the close of the bout, almost always seems to be the gratuitous offer of contraception--sort of like a windshield wash with a fillup...
...liberally sauced with prurience and self-pity. The book is a brief and graceful, often witty memoir of Morris' inner and outer life. The outer life proceeds from a happy childhood in an artistic upper-class Welsh family (he read Huck Finn, cherished animals, and was taught to "wash my hands before tea"), through years as a choirboy at Christ Church College in Oxford, some tune at Lancing, a public school (which James hated), through Oxford and the army (which he enjoyed), as well as work on the Guardian and the Times. (With a touch of male chauvinism, Morris...