Word: alterable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watergate trial of six former Nixon aides? In fact, the issue on which the U.S. Supreme Court begins final deliberations this week is far more complex and far reaching. The ultimate ruling-and how Nixon responds to it-may vitally affect the impeachment proceedings and conceivably could alter the constitutional relationship between the Judicial and Executive branches of government...
Americans have always had mixed feelings about their press. In folklore, the reporter is Superman's alter ego, but he is also the Front Page cynic who would trade in his grandmother for a scoop. By way of a more elevated example, almost everybody (at least among journalists) remembers Jefferson's famous remark that if he had to choose between a government without newspapers and newspapers without a government, he would pick the latter. But few recall that Jefferson also wrote on another occasion: "Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper...
...years now, Maeve Brennan's sharp-eyed alter ego, "the Long-Winded Lady," has been posting bulletins about the city and its inhabitants in The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" section. A self-styled "traveler in residence," she has always been able to turn quite ordinary things-two people looking in a store window, a small parade, a cat crouching under a parked van-into "moments of recognition." Her old-fashioned method is the unabashed use of straight description, as in A Snowy Night on West Forty-Ninth Street, the one New York story in Christmas...
Senior German officials do not expect the personal bond between the two leaders to alter the basic views of national interest so deeply held in both countries. It is well to remember, though, that Willy Brandt and Georges Pompidou did not like and trust each other; Schmidt and Giscard do. That is a notable advantage even, or perhaps especially, when policies diverge...
...since politics was invented. But this is not politics; this is war ... a genuinely terrifying innovation ... Any person proven to have used these techniques should not only be punished by the law; he should be banned forever from participation in American politics. For Watergate has been an attempt to alter the very nature of the ancient American political system...