Word: clingingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Disastrous Week. Nixon's unilateral "compromise" plan of the week before to surrender only summaries of the subpoenaed tapes, verified by Mississippi Senator John Stennis, was generally seen as an attempt to evade the courts' more demanding order. But for the public outcry, Nixon was prepared to cling to that plan, and had he done so, he almost certainly would have been declared in contempt of court by Federal Judge John J. Sirica and, as a result, impeached. In a sense, the public outrage may have helped save Nixon from himself in the tapes case...
Some of the dumpyard creations are startling in their originality. They cling to treetops, hug mountainsides and nestle in wooded ravines. They offer a hodgepodge of winding exterior stairways, overhanging balconies and thatched roofs with soaring pitches. The interiors are equally daring. Polished steam engines serve as stoves; old windshields make unorthodox solariums. In fact, these houses have everything but the basics. The bathroom is often an outhouse. Electricity and central heating are rare. But there is more to life than utilities, or so say the owner-builders, who value the karma of self-expression over the convenience of plumbing...
...little, have pulled apart and formed their own defenses, tried to reorder their shattered worlds. To some of them, it is now clear that Nixon was their nemesis. In private, they wonder just how long Mitchell, Ehrlichman, Haldeman, Agnew-maybe Rebozo-and their tortured wives and children can cling to their professions of presidential innocence, can display faulty memories and live behind legal gimmicks. Will one break...
...Cambridge are carried out slowly and privately, far from the reach of officials and journalists. Now and then, prompted by some election or dramatic event, an official "crisis" is declared in one of these struggles, and the detailed stories are brought to light, while bureaucrats and community leaders cling by the skin of their reputations to the unraveling tale...
Though Prime Minister Olof Palme seems determined to cling to office, he may have some problems. Until a new constitution goes into effect in 1975, the only way to break a tied vote in the one-chamber legislature is by lottery. According to an unusual provision of Sweden's current constitution, tie votes in the Riksdag are resolved by placing one yes and one no ballot in an urn; under the watchful eye of two legislators representing both sides, a third Riksdag member draws one of the tickets from the urn to decide the fate of the bill...