Word: cleans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Annoyed to Tears. He demanded that the accusers who had been leaking documents to the press identify themselves and explain their motives. He revealed that he had already asked the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to reopen its investigation of the wiretap controversy and give him a clean bill of health...
...considered resigning. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield advised him "to roll with the punches and do what the rest of us do with criticism: try to add another layer of skin." But before one had a chance to grow, Kissinger read the adverse newspaper editorials badgering him to come clean on the wiretaps. Within hours of his departure with Nixon for the Middle East, he sent a letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee requesting a hearing on his role in the wiretaps; then he decided to hold the explosive Salzburg press conference...
...easily dispensed with either. "Middle class means you can live above the survival level and have some whims as well as needs," says the Rev. William Lawson, a Baptist preacher in Houston. For Mary Davis, a Chicago urban planner, being middle class means "going to a good school, being clean and taking a bath." Evelyn Thompson, a reporter for KOOL-TV in Phoenix, recalling the well-done cuts of cheap pork that poor blacks consume, observes: "You know a black has been assimilated into the middle class if he eats rare meat...
...Oklahoma City IRS office turned Bellmon down for sound bureaucratic reasons: the agents were too busy audit ing current returns. Despite Bellmen's good intentions, the IRS decision was probably wise; certifying the Senator as clean could have set a precedent for an expanding search for seals of approval...
...Harvard-Radcliffe sailing team is looking for a clean sweep of the national championships this month, as the team will have representatives at both the Women's National Championships and the Men's North American Championships...