Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...determined Agnew, meanwhile, continued to show every outward sign of confidence that he will survive his crisis. At a local Republican rally in St. Charles, Ill., he assailed what he termed "the morbid preoccupation with Watergate" and claimed that one "insidious byproduct of the affair" is that there is now a "persecutorial atmosphere hanging over the American political system." The implication seemed to be that he considers himself one of the persecuted...
...that the President was involved in a crime-the Watergate cover-up-but that he refused to give up the tapes and memoranda that might exonerate him. The committee insisted that the subpoena was well within its "mandate and responsibility to ferret out all the facts regarding the Watergate affair, both to aid the Senate in its legislative function and ... to inform the public." For good measure, the committee lawyers projected themselves as preservers of the entire republican system of government: "Once the President becomes so immune by privilege that he cannot be reached by force of law short...
Despite such signs of cynicism about the nature of U.S. politics, the public is not at all complacent about the overall Watergate scandal. Oddly, a majority (58%) say that they are "upset" about the affair, while an overwhelming 82% say that they are "disgusted...
...censure both Perón's political ambitions and his affair with Evita, the officers finally demanded and got his resignation from the government in October 1945. The maneuver backfired. The unions, abetted by army officers still friendly to Perón, called a general strike and staged a massive demonstration outside Government House on Oct. 17 (since celebrated as Peronist Loyalty Day). As they shouted, "Our lives for Perón!", he suddenly appeared on a balcony. "Where have you been?" they cried. Peron replied with the first of many demagogic harangues he would deliver from that same...
...stays fit by doing daily exercises in his palace, an old, rambling affair, parts of which are still mud-walled. The Alafin is confident of his relationship with his people: "There are many things we obas [kings] can do better for the people than government functionaries. We are here all the time and know the problems, while they are constantly being shifted around the country...