Word: cushions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus there was no cushion of rapport when the full impact of Watergate began to be felt. Ziegler labeled previous inaccurate pronouncements "inoperative." He apologized to the Washington Post for his earlier attacks. But reporters are in no mood to forgive...
Hagerty retained the three-point cushion off a clear. Working his man toward the crease, he took a difficult-angle shot into the right corner...
Spearheaded by Cunningham's five goals and Murison's two goals and three assists, the Big Red kept a ten-point cushion through the remainder of the game...
Wynn and Father Arrupe first met at Arrupe's office in the Jesuit Curia building, where the Jesuit superior general interrupts interviews to answer his own phone and otherwise shows little patience with pomp and ceremony. Just outside the office, Wynn noticed a small green cushion. That, Arrupe told him, was where he sits to pray in Zen Buddhist style, a habit he picked up while serving for 27 years as a missionary in Japan. "When we send a man to China, he becomes a Chinaman," explained Arrupe. "When we send him to India, he becomes an Indian...
...Jesuits' Roman headquarters, a severe, palazzo-ike building on Borgo Santo Spirito, a stone's throw from St. Peter's, Arrupe still emulates Japanese ways. In the tiny private chapel off his room, he prays, sitting Zen-style on a cushion, each morning and evening that he is there. Often he is not. Though previous Jesuit generals stayed close to Rome, Arrupe has logged 200,000 miles on more than 30 trips. Says an aide: "His face lights up when he's on the road...