Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...observers again felt that he had weathered the worst accusations against him, and that the recess would bring him time for recovery. As one of his aides remarked: "If you keep a fire under a boiler long enough, pretty soon you boil all the water out, and finally you burn even the bottom of the boiler. I sense that's what has happened with Watergate...
...goes on to divide the extremists into two categories: violent and "socalled" nonviolent. The first embraces those who advocate and practice arson, fire bombing and destruction of property; also skyjackers, prison rioters and people who threaten public officials or distribute publications urging revolution. The nonviolent category includes those who burn their draft cards, participate in May Day demonstrations, "organize and attend rock festivals which attract youth and narcotics," travel to Cuba, Algeria and North Viet Nam, or "aid in funding the sale of firearms to the Irish Republican Army and Arab terrorists." Writes Flynn: "There is evidence from classified documents...
...Liddy, then the Nixon re-election committee's chief counsel, were presented. Indignantly, Mitchell said he was "angered" and "aghast" at these plans. They were "a complete horror story" and "beyond the pale." Each time, he said, he clearly and flatly rejected the plans. He told Liddy to burn the charts outlining his initial schemes, which included the use of call girls, mugging squads and kidnaping...
...immediate post-Watergate period, Mitchell also contradicted Magruder's testimony that there had been a decision in Mitchell's apartment on June 19 that Magruder should burn his records on the wiretapping results, code-named Gemstone. He denied Dean's allegation that he had asked Dean to seek the approval of Ehrlichman and Haldeman in enlisting the help of Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal attorney, to raise and disburse payments to the arrested wiretappers. He scoffed at Dean's charge that he and other Nixon associates talked about out-of-court approaches to a Washington...
...alienates him from them, and causes repulsive hallucinations of lizards, moray eels, and huge reptiles standing in blood-soaked carpets sipping cocktails. The drive for success/money/power has created a world where an "eat the wounded" shark ethic prevails, but Thompson believes its apocalypse is imminent. He watches people burn themselves out in struggles for self-preservation, escaping "meat-hook reality" through dope, booze, and watching football -- "whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out for the longest possible time...