Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Working for nearly three years over yellow legal pads at his San Clemente estate, Nixon produced 1.5 million words. Even more surprising, he then went willingly, if painfully, through an editing process that slashed those hard-wrought words to fewer than 500,000−a throw-away of presidential verbiage that must make historians blink. Still, the final product is a book of 1,184 pages. And though Nixon had research help from his staff, as well as from writers who prepared drafts of some sections, the result, says Editor in Chief Robert Markell of Grosset & Dunlap, "is very much...
...attend the funeral for her husband's police escort, to attend Mass on Easter Sunday, and to visit the Vatican offices of Caritas, the Catholic relief agency that volunteered to act as an intermediary. The rest of the time she has remained in seclusion in the modest yellow brick apartment building in northern Rome where the family has lived for 13 years...
...bartender and the security guards had long since passed out, leaving me along with the Master as he extracted a creased sheet of yellow paper from his rumpled suit pocket...
...Rosovsky started the process that has led to the Core when he sent the Faculty his "yellow letter" criticizing undergraduate education at Harvard and recommending the formation of seven task forces to plan improvements---one of which presented the first plans for the Core last spring...
...Crimson will try to continue following the yellow brick road when they play in the NCAA qualifying tourney on Thursday and Friday...