Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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At the start of every year, pundits, astrologers and other assorted soothsayers crank out their predictions for the year ahead. Few take them very seriously, and judging by the 1970 performance, that is just as well. There were some outstanding goofs. Britain's Astrologer Maurice Woodruff predicted that Ronald...
A year ago it was also a time for journalists and critics to look forward to what 1970 would bring, but their record turned out to be nearly as spotty as the astrologers. Many expected a hot summer of black unrest in the ghettos that never materialized. Economists looked for...
There is a creche in the East Room, and the White House halls are decked with boughs of holly-not to mention thousands of massed poinsettias, hundreds of velvet bows, swags of greenery, four 50-inch wreaths and doubtless, somewhere in all the profusion, a pear tree complete with partridge...
The staff, which gets a party of its own, is beginning to flag a bit. "When the President gets going on Christmas," sighs one weary aide, "there's no stopping him." Well, not quite. When Mrs. Nixon was showing her husband all the preparations, the President tried to break...
Defacing a public monument is a crime in France; the idea is worth borrowing and extending to cover such assaults as the Disney scheme to turn California's Mineral King mountain fastness into a tourist development, or the perennial proposal to build a highway through the Grand Canyon. Anyone...