Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Delay any broader impeachment move by stalling in the delivery of requested evidence, continuing to raise legal technicalities, and resorting to time-consuming court action. Delay could erode public interest in the whole sordid scandal. Stalling could also push the crucial impeachment vote closer to the November elections?thus making it more risky for any incumbent Congressman?and perhaps even cause the problem to be carried over into the next session of Congress...
Wallace wants to make a permanent home in the Democratic Party, which he feels has moved closer to his thinking after the McGovern debacle. "We're back in the party for better or for worse, or, as we say down here, 'ridin' or walkin',' " says Michael Griffin, 25, an energetic Wallace aide. "The Governor is like Minnie Pearl when she says, 'Ah'm jes glad to be here.' Party stalwarts who once denounced Wallace as a bigot are now treating him like a brother. Last July 4, Ted Kennedy appeared with...
...hearings, Subcommittee Chairman Robert W. Kastenmeier, a Wisconsin Democrat, admitted that the country was no closer to a solution of the problem. "Our hearings were held to determine if there was support for any of the available approaches," he said. "It will take some time to get a consensus. There will have to be some changes of heart." There are not likely to be any until this year's election is over and Congress can deal with such political dynamite without fearing punishment at the polls...
...leave the hill crest you leave the road," Wetzel said. He had been instructed to steer for a telephone pole across the road, which would serve as a bearing to keep him on course when the car touched down. "As the pole loomed in front me, and I got closer and closer, I couldn't help letting out a 'God almighty,'" he said. The race car landed 20 feet in front of the pole and Wetzel pulled through the turn...
...musician. But no one has come closer to unearthing civilization's lost chord than Anne D. Kilmer, who is a professor of Assyriology at the University of California at Berkeley. After five years' study of clay tablets discovered in an excavation of the city of Ugarit (now Ras Shamra, Syria), which flourished more than 3,000 years ago, Kilmer deciphered the thin cuneiform script as the words and musical symbols of an ancient song. Older by 1,400 years than the 400 B.C. papyrus that contains music for Euripides' play Orestes, Kilmer's finding...