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Word: asking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ask an American citizen to try to imagine what he would do if confronted by the squalid and surreal choice facing his President: stonewall or confess. One person--one only--made the disgusting mess: Bill Clinton. Let him find...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Confession Game: Assuming It's The Truth, | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...know anybody at the top of the system...who really wants to see the President hurt," said Senator Orrin Hatch, who could inflict some of that hurt. "[If] he does come forth and say, 'I made a mistake...'[to] protect his wife and daughter...and then ask for...some sort of consideration, I think we would bend over backward to try and give him that consideration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Confession Game: Assuming It's The Truth, | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

Behind the scenes, aides worked hard to limit the President's exposure. Because of reports that hackers have broken into closed-circuit TV feeds, some members of Clinton's inner circle are pressing Kendall to ask Starr to have the grand jury come to the White House. They are trying to prevent the testimony from being videotaped because they are certain that the tape would leak. For now, the White House boasts that grand jurors will not be able to ask questions of Clinton. There is nothing, however, to prevent prosecutors at the courthouse from sending over questions to their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Over To You, Bill Clinton | 8/17/1998 | See Source »

...began to ask about my local haunts. Good! At least one of us was going to keep the ball rolling. We discussed the local high school bar and agreed that was company neither of us aspired to keep. This up-county boy was impressive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POSTCARD FROM NEW ROCHELLE | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

...this scandal, whose own denouement is tiptoeing into view. Sex, sex, sex, for one thing, including plenty of discussion about how far is too far to go on a sultry Panhandle night. The coquette/tramp, played with appropriate feminine deviltry by Cybill Shepherd (who never looked so good -- just ask Bogdanovich, who did a May-December bit of his own with Cybill during the shoot and after). And of course the mantra, inserted early on by John Keats via John Hillerman: "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." The grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Potato Show | 8/14/1998 | See Source »

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