Word: wayes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...noon, he is aboard his 55-ft. sloop Curragh, which he treats the way a teenager nurses his first automobile. Kennedy will hastily grab a rag to wipe a thumbprint off a chrome fitting or to polish the brass. Once Ethel dropped a deviled egg on the teak deck. Kennedy frowned as she wiped up. "I'll bet we don't get invited back tomorrow," she murmured to a companion. She was right...
...epithet, meaning that the target is an impractical spendthrift. Kennedy's staff has taken to calling him a "pragmatist," which is supposed to convey the impression that he is a hard-headed problem solver not bound by any ideology. That definition, too, can be read in more than one way. Says an old Kennedy friend, conservative Republican Congressman Barber Conable of New York: "Ted is the son of Joe Kennedy and the brother of Jack and Bobby. Like them, he accommodates himself to the prevailing views...
...Mexico and why not others?" (Kennedy at times seems uneasy with statistical charts and figures, jumbling them and obfuscating his points. He also has a disconcerting habit of leaving sentences unfinished, though this has the advantage of allowing his listeners to finish them, in their own way...
...life did not begin that way. Joan Bennett was the debutante daughter of an advertising executive from Bronxville, N.Y. Educated at Catholic schools, she was 22 when she wed Edward Moore Kennedy. From her wedding day, "Joansie," as Ted called her, found herself buffeted by the demands on a Kennedy wife. The hardest thing, she said shortly after her marriage, "is learning to keep up with the clan." Only years later could she admit: "I tried to be like the Kennedys, bouncy and running all over. But I could never be that." Even her repeated miscarriages seemed a special failure...
...week after the accident, and after he had consulted with at least seven old Kennedy hands. He has denied that he was drunk, that he and Kopechne were intentionally heading toward the beach or that he spent the hours after the accident trying to find a way to escape blame for it. Kennedy acknowledges that he was "irresponsible" in not phoning police...