Word: wind
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington until at least Feb. 16, 2) he could not testify in a courtroom setting in California until Feb. 2, 3) he could not risk even the strain of giving a deposition in his home until Jan. 6. That posed a dilemma for Sirica, who is trying to wind up the trial by Christmas. Sirica could delay the trial's conclusion until after a deposition was taken. If this is done, the doctors recommended, questioning of the former President should be restricted to two one-hour sessions a day under close medical supervision. The defense attorneys, a prosecution team...
...after tickets had gone on sale, avoid that claustrophobia-inducing crowd, and still get a pair of pretty decent seats. This year I had to go to the Garden box office the night before tickets went on sale and brave the pouring rain the following day in order to wind up with a couple of 16th row seats. The taste of success is indeed sweet. Yes at the Boston Garden Wednesday, December...
There was a strong wind blowing across Syntagma Square Friday evening. In front of the Grande Bretagne Hotel, a Rolls-Royce was parked. Across its bumper was a sticker: I'M VOTING FOR CARAMANLIS. Up above, every room in the hotel facing the square was filled with parties of wealthy Greeks waiting with champagne. The crowd, well over 200,000 this time, was older, dressed in furs and Paris fashions; the scents were not of garlic and grass but of Chanel and Givenchy. Many carried candles to light as they had done when Caraman lis returned to Greece last...
...from the movies. Pausing by the white organza gown worn by Joan Crawford in Letty Lynton, she recalled: "Five hundred thousand copies of this dress were sold." Then she straightened the hat worn by Vivien Leigh when Scarlett O'Hara bailed out Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, and marveled at the exotic headpiece that disguised Greta Garbo in Mata Hari. When she got to the cane Mae West leaned on in films like She Done Him Wrong, Mrs. Vreeland briskly struck down one of Hollywood's fondest delusions. "Mae had quite a small bust, you know...
Yale battled back, finding the mark ten minutes later with a 20-yard angle shot that hung up in the cross-field wind and lofted out of Herold's reach...