Word: dashes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mitchell opened his 2½ days of testimony forcefully. Appearing under subpoena and against his will, he presented no overall statement and fielded the initial questions of Chief Counsel Samuel Dash briskly and pointedly. As expected, Mitchell admitted sitting through three meetings, the first two as Attorney General, at which the bizarre and illegal political espionage plans of G. Gordon Liddy, then the Nixon re-election committee's chief counsel, were presented. Indignantly, Mitchell said he was "angered" and "aghast" at these plans. They were "a complete horror story" and "beyond the pale." Each time, he said, he clearly...
...asked Dash, as "Attorney General of the United States, why didn't you throw Mr. Liddy out of your office?" Responded Mitchell coolly: "Well, I think, Mr. Dash, in hindsight I not only should have thrown him out of the office, I should have thrown him out of the window." Persisted Dash: "Well, since you did neither [laughter], why didn't you at least recommend that Mr. Liddy be fired?" Again Mitchell agreed: "Well, in hindsight, I probably should have done that...
Mating seems to offer more time for comedy than resolution, and A Touch of Class ends predictably, with a dash of prefabricated melancholy. Melvin Frank's direction, like the script he wrote with Jack Rose, was apparently devised to give his actors maximum room to romp. A wise choice, since Jackson and Segal are the ones with most of the real style and-yes-class...
Mommy pops a Dexamyl and to her firstborn, whom she is diapering, explains that she must dash to keep an appointment with her psychiatrist, who is trying to determine why she is cuckoo...
...Samuel Dash, chief majority counsel for the Senate select committee investigating Watergate, also learned his law under Cox in the forties...