Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agnew Affair...
...Agnew's affair [Oct. 22] clearly showed the importance of the watchdog function of a free press in a democratic society. Congratulations for your action...
...White House affair to announce the nomination of Representative Gerald Ford [Oct. 22] was in conspicuously bad taste. A sad, disgraceful event was topped off by a festive social celebration. It would have been more appropriate to go to confession...
Much of the Ervin committee testimony is used as the factual basis for a highly readable chronology, but without tedious reliance on long quotations. The writers hold to a minimum all of those cluttering qualifications that blurred the news reports as the affair originally unfolded. The crafty evasions of John Ehrlichman, the astounding forgetfulness of Bob Haldeman, the dogged denials of John Mitchell are generally tucked between parentheses. The authors clearly consider them nearly irrelevant and feel that the truth might be better served by not reading the parenthetical matter-as indeed it would...
...Robert Merriwether, a Harvard professor, 42, still fit from sculling on the Charles-and lonely from puttering in the lab-makes the familiar, by now ritualistic slip. While wife and children splash off the coast of Maine, he has an affair with a Radcliffe summer student, a girl young enough, as the saying goes, to be his daughter...