Word: bareli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard of the West" turned out to be little more than a conservative country club run in the guise of a university, one of the nation's best in fact. Though beautiful bodies and bare chests would occasionally saunter into classrooms after a rugged set of tennis, the brains attached to those bodies weren't always turned...
...front of the green there was a gaping pond that had already served as an unwelcome commode for the balls and dreams of more than a few players in the Pleasant Valley field. The 17th was a perfect test. And an easy gallery hole. There were two high, relatively bare slopes--one near the tee shot landing area, the other in front and to the left of the green--that allowed spectators to view nearly the entire hole. Since the best spots were furthest up the slopes, it would probably be easy to move along the fairways and around...
...usual cool restraint had returned when he faced the television cameras half an hour later in the Oval Office. At Nixon's request, the crew of technicians was kept to a bare minimum; no aides, friends or family members were in the room to share his disgrace. There were no precedents at all in American history-and no exact precedents in world history, the resignation of West Germany's Chancellor Willy Brandt being perhaps the closest recent parallel-for the sort of speech that Nixon, a head of state departing under a cloud, was about to make...
...Wiggins. Posing sharp legalistic questions, Wiggins insisted that perhaps only half of one volume among the committee's books of evidence would be admissible in a Senate trial of the President. "Simple theories, of course, are inadequate. That is not evidence. A supposition, however persuasive, is not evidence. A bare possibility that something might have happened is not evidence...
...times the footprints of guilt must be traced with a search light of probability, of common experience." Moreover, circumstantial evidence is admissible in trials, Cohen noted, and it is often persuasive. He cited as an example that someone who had gone to sleep at night when the ground was bare and awoke to find snow on the ground could reasonably conclude that snow had fallen while he slept...