Word: buttress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nola had his own troubles and was busy trying to buttress his position. He could preside, make speeches-but not really rule. When Palma Carlos tried to pressure the Council of State into moving the presidential election up from next year to this autumn, presumably with the expectation that Spínola would be elected President, he was rebuffed. Spínola was accused of trying to gather power in his own hands...
Here, as elsewhere, a majority believes the President is guilty, perhaps impeachably so. But a battered, steadfast minority refuses to budge from its conviction that Nixon has done nothing wrong, and each side reads the tapes to buttress its view. Typical of the supporters is Bernard Shanley, a G.O.P. national committeeman from New Jersey. Said he: "The tapes have proved Nixon is not responsible for a crime, and no matter what people think of the transcripts, they do not have evidence that he committed a crime." Some Nixon supporters, Republicans, independents and even Democrats, fear the possibly cataclysmic effect...
...performed, which they then returned to the union; they knew only that the money was part of an elaborate kickback scheme, not that it would be used for the murders. Sprague also placed on the stand FBI agents who had investigated the Dec. 31, 1969 killings. Each witness helped buttress Sprague's contention...
...everyone was so lighthearted. Conservative M.P. John Stokes called the ad "deplorably vulgar." Grumped another Conservative, Joseph Kinsey: "It is debasing the standards of the gas board to suggest we should share our baths." Other Britons were taken with the idea, but still found Ap practical arguments to buttress the two Tories' starchy objections. Vacationing at a hotel in Somerset, one couple forgot to turn off the taps with all their rub-a-dub-dubbing, and the water seeped into the bar. The next morning they hurriedly checked out after the other guests greeted them with the Eton Boating...
Davis snapped: "Here's the money. Do what you want with it." Ervin had the bills photocopied and returned to Da vis. Afterward, committee staffers began checking serial numbers to see if the bills are at least three years old. If they are, that would buttress Rebozo's story that the money lay in a safe-deposit box for three years...