Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accounts, the sudden and dramatic injection of the controversy over the Nixon tapes came about almost accidentally. As the Watergate committee's chief counsel, Sam Dash, explained it, his staff was working methodically on a "proximity investigation"?checking out everyone close to the key figures in the affair. Thus a routine private staff questioning of Alexander...
...three staff members present instantly realized the significance of Butterfield's revelation. They told Dash and the chief Republican counsel, Fred Thompson. Next morning when Chairman Ervin was informed, he called the news "quite astounding." Determined that this story must not leak to newsmen, as so many staff interviews had, Ervin ordered that not even the other Senators on the committee be immediately informed. Vice Chairman Baker learned of it Sunday morning only when Butterfield, seeking advice, asked to meet with him. Baker told Butterfield that he would have to testify publicly, but should inform White House Counsels Leonard Garment...
Ervin makes no elaborate preparations for the hearings. He deliberately does not read the staff briefs on the witnesses' closed-door testimony. "I find it's better to hear the witness himself," says Ervin. Before the hearings, Chief Counsel Sam Dash does consult with the Senator on the witnesses and briefs him generally on their testimony. Unlike many committee chairmen, Ervin does not like to question witnesses at an early point in their public testimony. Instead, he waits for his colleagues to run through their questions. "When you're last," says Ervin, "you can segregate the wheat...
...students of form in the 100-yd. dash, Sprinter Steven Williams comes on in races with all the grace of a commuter chasing the morning train. While his competitors jackrabbit away from the starting blocks, Williams usually lags behind, frantically trying to rev up the spidery legs on his 6-ft. 3-in. frame. Instead of pounding machine-like down the track, he jitterbugs unevenly, his shoulders performing a dance of their own. "One must understand track," marvels Fellow Sprinter Herb Washington, "to understand how one can make as many mistakes as Steve Williams...
...unfolded," as the lanky San Diego State junior describes his getaway activity, he seems to accelerate with the speed of a race car suddenly shifted into high gear. At the A.A.U. relays last May in Fresno, Calif., Williams tied the world record (9.1 sec.) in the 100-yd. dash; five weeks later, in Bakersfield, he became the first runner in 13 years to win both the 100 and the 220 in an A.A.U. championship. Last week in Turin, Italy, he swept past the best of Italian competitors to a first-place finish in the 200-meter race...