Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact, one of the many pleasures I enjoyed from our close friendship was the fringe benefit of sharing in the endless stream of invitations that he received to parties. There was always an ample surplus of good-looking girls. Victor married the second prettiest girl I know-a friend of my wife...
...know that the course is no lark...
...time, counts the votes, sticks to the possible, makes no move unless he is reasonably certain of success. "Lyndon is using the parliamentarian's approach," said one anxious friend last week. "He waits around for the precise moment and then moves by a set of rules he knows. But in the national game you don't wait, and you don't have any set of rules." Clint Anderson was more confident: "I know that he doesn't move until he has the votes. He has this great skill of putting votes together...
...left in plenty. "The people have a right to know," said he in the passage that drew the loudest applause from the capacity audience of 3,300, "why we have lost our unquestioned military superiority; why we have repeatedly allowed the Soviets to seize the diplomatic initiative; why we have faltered in the fight for disarmament; why we are not providing our children with education . . . why we spend billions of dollars storing surplus food when one-third of humanity goes to bed hungry . . . why millions of Americans lead blighted lives in our spreading urban slums...
...then Eric's father, who swept up his son in a blanket and carried him home. He had, reported Roland Peugeot, paid the kidnapers some ransom money, but would not say where or how much. "It was a personal agreement, and I am the only one to know what happened...