Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those descriptions, but Abrahamsen makes his mountains of childhood molehills. When Nixon was a boy, he would lie awake at night, listening to whistles of passing trains and fantasizing about faraway places. This wanderlust, which continued in adulthood, was an outlet for "frustrated sexual desires." Young Nixon was also adept at mashing potatoes without leaving any lumps; Abrahamsen writes that he "chose to release his energy" in this "unusual" way to win his mother's love. The "extent and intensity" of the mashing suggests "aggression" against the potatoes, "a substitute for people...
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...freeze submarines into the ice in Groton, Conn., but New Englanders were somewhat smugly observing the discomfort elsewhere in the land. They had been especially hard-hit during the oil crisis of 1973-74. Since then, they have managed to accumulate some reserves, and Yankee dealers have become adept at scrounging new supplies. Moreover, the area uses little of what is now so scarce: natural gas. Nonetheless, as the sun rose cheerless over hills of gray, snowbound New Englanders felt the cold-in their pocketbooks. Both inflation and the severe winter mean that an average homeowner in the area...
Daley's Chicago worked financially, supporters like to say, especially in comparison to New York. Indeed, the mayor was an adept fiscal manager and the city is solvent. But observers are wrong in attributing that to some magic on Daley's part, some ability to have his cake and eat it too--to satisfy labor and management, black and white, rich and poor, and keep taxes down at the same time...
Subtleties and extenuations are, of course, present. The KTA Chairman is a very senior, respectable and adept official of pre-Park lineage and experience in international affairs. He may not always have to accede to the KCIA and might even stand against some of its pressures. It is also possible that the KCIA itself, a labyrinth with chambers of both cruelty and sophistication, might itself agree to grants with few strings, much as, apparently, in the case of Tongsun Park, whose scattering of largesse rarely accompanied intensive political demands. Perhaps, even, the KCIA kept its hands off this particular grant...