Word: window
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Says Walker of lobbying: "There is always a pressure point somewhere, if you search hard enough. You've also got to be willing to window-dress. How can you be against 'truth in lending' or 'freedom of information...
...rarely go out at night. Most of their entertaining is casual, such as weekend barbecues-over mesquite wood from Texas. Walker has another specialty: fried catfish. Says he: "You get some Yankees out and don't tell them what it is, and they like it"-just a little window dressing to make the meal more palatable for everyone...
Speech is free in the U.S.S.R. as long as it serves the Communist system, as interpreted by the party leadership. When the state perceives a threat to its welfare, Western ideas about civil rights go out the window. The forms remain-courts, judges, defense lawyers-but in political trials the result is predetermined and the proceedings are often secret and usually travesties...
...experiment: Patrick Steptoe, who came and went daily in his white Mercedes, dodging in and out of the hospital's side doors to avoid the press. Or a chat with the equally elusive father. Or, scoop of scoops, a photograph of Lesley Brown peeking from behind her carefully curtained window...
...baby in relation to the weeks of pregnancy. Steptoe apparently tried to get her to stop smoking, but she still sneaks an occasional cigarette. Presumably, she knows of all the concern about her and her baby because she has a television and a radio in her room. From her window, she can see the hospital's children's unit with its gaily colored swings, whirling merry-go-rounds and playful youngsters. Reported a nurse: "She just feels like any other mother-to-be: tired...