Word: affair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...IMMEDIATE task before Senator Ervin's Select Committee is that of determining exactly how widespread was knowledge about the multitude of buggings and shady transactions known as the Watergate affair. But before the Committee's term expires in February, the seven members will attempt to sift through the thousands of pages of transcripts and formulate new legislation designed to prevent an elections scandal of this type and incredible magnitude from occurring again...
...OTHER DAY on the Hill, Sen. Lowell Weicker told a story that shows how lucky we were to ever find out about the Watergate affair. Had it not been for a car that ran out of gas at a most propitious moment, the whole affair might still be hidden behind the "cone of silence" at the White House...
...links to the truth have been tenuous throughout the whole Watergate affair. Were it not for Judge John Sirica, the whole matter might have been limited to the conviction of the seven original culprits. But, under pressure, promise and threat from Sirica, McCord finally came through with that rare and precious thing--the truth...
Such goings-on make it obvious that these men have learned well from a President who uses pancake makeup to cover up his five o'clock shadow. But pancake makeup failed to do the trick in the Watergate affair...
FIRST ONE patch of stubble was seen, then another and yet another until the President had developed an awful case of the nubs. Some of the exposed bristles are much more ghastly than that patch of black known as the Watergate affair...