Word: airtight
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition to the Senate investigations, the federal grand jury in Washington probing Watergate is also focusing on Ehrlichman, Haldeman and Dean. Justice Department officials now believe that they have an airtight case against the three for obstructing justice in the various Watergate investigations...
...very moment, without a ripple at headquarters. In contrast, Mr. Nixon stood personally to gain by the theft of Democratic campaign material, as well as by other felonious actions intended to disrupt the Democratic ranks. The circumstantial evidence of his involvement, whether as author, patron, or accessory, is almost airtight; his innocence becomes unthinkable...
...sidelight to last week's talks in Paris was a rumor in the State Department that Kissinger erred last October when he hurried home to Washington with a draft agreement that turned out to be less than airtight. There is no evidence that this is so, and the whispers of a Kissinger goof could be put down to State jealousy, but they would surely increase if the President's negotiator were to fail to nail down a settlement on the second go-round. In short, some furious bargaining remained to be done before either Kissinger...
...Harvard, the second half was an exercise in perfection. The defense continued to prove airtight, thwarting numerous Big Red attempts to get the ball past midfield. Bahman RahmaniMossavar. Henry Sideropoulos, and Demetrio Mena (who earlier in the first half replaced an injured Emmanuel Ekama) were excellent in breaking up Cornell plays before they could get untracked...
...dancing. It was finally legalized in 1937, and in the past few years has gained broad popularity-as a folk art rather than as a self-defense tactic. "It has everything," says an enthusiast. "It is a beautiful dance, the music is contagious, it is spectacular exercise, it is airtight self-defense, and it is poetry...