Word: crack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Haldeman but was prepared by for mer White House Aide John Caulfield, complained that Republican appointees at IRS "lack guts and effort" and "appear afraid and unwilling to do anything that could be politically helpful." As a result, the document said, the White House staff was unable to crack down on tax-exempt foundations that "feed left-wing political causes," to obtain information from the IRS "regarding our political enemies," to "stimulate audits of persons who should be audited" or to place Nixon supporters in the IRS bureaucracy. A third memo, from Security Specialist Tom Charles Huston to Haldeman, suggested...
...extremely intelligent. He has so much common sense. He's become a sort of folk hero." Could it be that the lady praising Senator Sam Ervin was Novelist Mary McCarthy, whose tongue is generally sharp enough to crack ice at 30 paces? Indeed...
...call to arms to every crazy vigilante group in this country." Michigan Attorney General Frank Kelley warns, "This really sets us back in the dark ages. Now prosecuting attorneys in every county and state will be grandstanding, and every jury in every little community will have a crack at each new book, play and movie...
...accommodation has to work both ways. Ken says, "I don't want them to pity me, and I don't want them to think 'Daddy's home again and he's going to crack the whip.' I never want them to think 'Why doesn't he go back to Viet Nam?' " When the girls once asked him whether he was tortured, he said "Yes," and the family left it at that...
...Homeward Bound;" its singer's over-inflated, self-pitying view of himself was combined with a banal excursion into sentiment. By the time S and G had reached the self-conscious artiness of "The Boxer," they had dissipated their creative impulse, aad were selling two million records at a crack...