Word: yes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason people loved Lardner, says Yardley, was because he managed to capture a scene perfectly and the response of his readers was "Yes, that's exactly how it is." Yardley is especially fond of Lardner's ability to "distinguish the subtleties of the way people talked and thought and then to turn them into effective fiction." Because Lardner's books were never best-sellers, the assumption is that he achieved his popularity in the media--for instance, his stories which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and New Yorker were more successful than such books as "You Know...
Overdrafts It has been established that Lance, his wife LaBelle and nine other relatives collectively amassed huge overdrafts. At one point in the confirmation hearings, Senator Javits asked Lance whether the overdrafts were repaid to the bank with interest. Lance responded, "Yes, sir." That may have been true of the period from mid-1974 to 1975. But the comptroller's report confirmed that Bert's and LaBelle's overdrafts from 1972 through the first five months of 1974 were repaid without interest...
...Yes, other Presidents wiretapped for personal purposes, misused the IRS, CIA and FBI, lied to the American people, employed dirty campaign tricks against their opponents-as has been fully reported in the press. Nixon, uniquely, did all of those things-and more. He also cheated massively on his income tax, used federal funds to furnish personal residences, told his aides in effect to lie to grand juries, altered (and probably destroyed) evidence in a criminal case, lied to the top Justice Department officials investigating those crimes, ordered the payment of hush money to convicted criminals, offered a prestigious...
Veeck looked about at a crowd of 40,000 customers. "Yes," he said, "and with each home run we're better able to afford him." I believe that's how free enterprise is supposed to work...
...driven nature. "You really have to start separating the man from the myth," he says. Far from watching the set every waking hour, he says, "I look at very little TV at home, unless I have to or unless a cassette comes in and it is an emergency." Yes, he admits, there is a three-TV unit in his new apartment overlooking Central Park, but it has not even been hooked up yet. Really, he says, his family?Cathy, to whom he has been married for six years, and his children, Melissa, 5, and William, 8 months?are far more...