Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defies belief that Frank Trippett could write a full page on the '70s without one word about inflation [Dec. 251. If there is anything future generations will recall about this decade, it will be the disappearance of the 25? hamburger, the 10? Coke and the $5 three-martini lunch. E.L. Estes Jr. Racine, Wis. Eying Evil...
...anxious Cabinet officer was calling, and he asked to be put through immediately to President Lyndon B. Johnson, who was in conference and had left word with White House Phone Operator Mary Crowe Burns that he wanted all calls...
Abandonment is a word that echoes through the Rand study, and the Vietnamese argue that U.S. withdrawal left them not only short of supplies but psychologically helpless. As Barry Zorthian, former minister-counselor for information of the American embassy in Saigon, said after reading the Rand study: "It pulls together the inherent contradictions in our relationship, that love-hate. There was a Vietnamese way of doing things and an American way of doing things. And we did neither." One of the Vietnamese officials concluded more tersely: "To sum up, the war was lost from its inception...
...Johnstons: "We all know them-good-lookin' boys, but they always had them $100 bills and them fancy cars even though they never was too healthy for work." Says a family friend: "Bruce is a moral man who doesn't hold with drinking and swearing. His word is his bond. But he won't be doublecrossed...
...whispering very emotionally as he explained all this to his friend. Like a man who had found Truth, he was compelled to spread the word. And like a good evangelist he had skillfully woven myth and fact, vision and reality, into a web so entangled that you could never be really sure of anything...