Word: bores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fruits which that unknown orchard bore...
JOHN MITCHELL. He was one of Nixon's closest friends and political confidants. But the President was willing to let Mitchell take the rap for overseeing Watergate, drawing the heat away from the White House?if a way could be found to get him to agree. The disclosure bore out Martha Mitchell's celebrated telephone call on March 31, 1973, which seemed wildly improbable at the time. She complained to a reporter: "I think this Administration has turned completely against my husband...
Dean Under Fire. Some jurors found Dean to be an impressive witness during his testimony, which bore on three of the perjury counts against Mitchell. But they were put off by his admission that he was awaiting sentencing for his confession of guilt on conspiracy to obstruct justice in the Watergate coverup. Moreover, they were unsettled by the fact that he admitted under cross-examination that he hoped his performance at the Mitchell-Stans trial would be noted by the judge who would mete out his punishment. Clarence Brown, a postal employee, expressed his fellow jurors' feelings: "I liked John...
...early '60s, Ray's films were the exotic favorites at some international film festivals. But as his subject matter changed his films lost their picturesque appeal. They demanded more thought; their visual immediacy was no longer anthropological. Satyajit Ray's films became cultural documents in India, but began to bore festival audiences...
...astonishing that Mrs. Luce berates the press for reporting the facts of Richard Nixon's dismal career. Her sour-grapes ukase harks back to the Byzantine protocol that required the beheading of the messenger who bore evil tidings...