Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Billy affair and Watergate were surface trappings. A splurge of daily newspaper stories speculating on vague "intelligence" reports and plots, the convening of a special subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee with power to subpoena White House documents, even the revival of the old question, "What did the President know and when did he know it?"-these all had the ring of Watergate. So did the repeated anticipation of things they "forgot" to say. The vow of Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, who will head the committee, evoked Watergate when he said: "We will pursue the truth wherever the truth...
...only we could get someone close to the White House," Shahati told Papa. "My American friends in the oil business tell me that this Billy Carter is approachable and likable." Papa was surprised that Leanza, being from Georgia, did not know Billy, but he persuaded Leanza to carry an engraved invitation to Billy from the Libyan government to visit that country at its expense...
December 1978: Meeting Atlanta Braves Pitcher Phil Niekro, he notes: "I didn't know you were a Polack. I thought you were a bastardized...
...been rocking for 17 years now, ever since Mick Jagger met Keith Richards on the subway and told him, "I dig to sing." It's easy to forget just how long ago and far away that is, but network news was only fifteen minutes long then, people didn't know that cigarettes caused cancer, and Sonny Liston was not only alive but heavyweight champion of the world. There were no pocket calculators, and no Cuisinarts, and students ahd to wear ties to the dining halls at Harvard. It makes the Rolling Stones, along with Johnny Carson, Muhammad Ali, and Bruno...
...junior tennis tournaments, the rascals with the headbands scrunched down over furrowed little brows. Sullen looks, knee braces and mumbles about "bum draws." These kids accept intense jealousy, incessant selfdoubt and occasional deceit as the basis of achievement right along with hard work and lots of orange juice. I know, because I was one once...