Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much Betty enjoyed choosing the drapes for the East Room. Ford includes none of the inside dope that makes The Best and the Brightest enjoyable reading, nothing about the machinations and power struggles inside the government, or even Betty's boozing, or Jack's affair with Bianca Jagger. The whole book could've been written out of the New York Times. And no real insights into Ford himself, Ford the Man, except for the refrain "I was damn mad" and stories like this...
...unclear. Carter later surmised that perhaps the creature was fleeing an attacker. In any event, he did the sensible thing. He fended off the animal with a paddle. That at least was what they were saying around the White House last week. Claimed they had a picture showing the whole thing, but no, they were not about to release it. Said an amused Carter aide: "This is one of those things about the presidency that will remain shrouded in mystery." As for Carter, he smiled and said, "It was just a nice, typical Georgia rabbit...
Summertime, and the livin' was easy for 53 Illinois state legislators and 60 of their aides. Or at least it was for a while. In July the group junketed off to cool San Francisco for the five-day meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures. Supposedly the whole venture was strictly business, but it turned out that no one was required to attend any of the sessions. What was more, the Illinois delegation joined more than 50 busloads of conferees for a scheduled winetasting tour of the vineyards of Napa Valley...
...whole venture angered a group of 8,000 Illinois taxpayers known as the Coalition for Political Honesty. They have asked the courts for an injunction forbidding the state to pay any of the estimated $85,000 expenses for the trip...
...reader with a false sense of wonder or an exaggerated sense of adventure. He conveys what he learns as something that a middle-aged man should already know: months of wandering in a hard place make one sick, lonely, itchy and tired. "I was weary," he writes, "of the whole African calliope - that nagging, pulsing musical din that has been reverberating strongly without letup for thousands of years before you arrive and will be continuing without any respite for sickness or fatigue long after you have left the earth...