Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full airing of Watergate in any trials that Nixon would have faced. But that option has been lost. What now? A number of theologians doubt that a categorical pardon for all other Watergate offenders would solve anything. An additional blanket pardon, contends Evangelical Theologian Carl F.H. Henry, would only compound a wrong by moving from "a preferred Individual to a preferred class of individuals...
Within days of Parliament's action, construction began in the heart of Kingston on a conspicuous compound containing both trial chambers and prison cells. With its guard towers and barbed-wire fences painted bloodred, the "rehabilitation center" looks like a Hollywood back-lot version of a World War II concentration camp. Some Kingston residents even refer to it as "Stalag...
...press and VIP stands. Outside the fence a biker raised a homemade sign: SHOW YOUR TITS. Several girls obediently shed their shirts and climbed aboard their boy friends' shoulders. A group of bikers hoisted a naked woman aloft and tossed her over a fence into the press compound. One girl stripped and, encouraged by the crowd, performed fellatio on her boy friend while he shouted: "For you, Evel! For you, man!" Others chanted a constant refrain: "The tribes have gathered!" When the crowd shouted obscenities at a public-address announcer who was ineptly trying to reduce tensions, the announcer...
Consumers, borrowers, investors -no one could take encouragement from last week's economic news. Retail prices shot up hi July at a compound annual rate of 10%, a bit less than the June pace of 12.6%, but still frightening. Moreover, the apparent improvement was illusory: it resulted entirely from a drop in food that shortly will be reversed. The Agriculture Department said that retail food prices will jump anywhere from 3% to 7% by year...
Except for occasional trips to the beach at Camp Pendleton 13 miles south of the estate and a drive in a dark-topped white Mercury, Nixon remained inside the compound. He received hardly any visitors and made only a few telephone calls to old supporters. He did call his longtime friend and former communications director, Herb Klein, to offer a good-humored apology for the unflattering references in the transcripts of June 23,1972, to Klein's not having "his head screwed on." After President Ford's address to Congress, Nixon sent him a congratulatory telegram. The next...