Word: deceits
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...vague answers. Lawyers all and unrestricted by courtroom rules of evidence, the interrogators constitute a fearsome array of antagonists for any witness who might try to sustain any lies. Equally merciless are the TV cameras, which reveal the slightest hesitation in answering or telltale signs of discomfort and deceit...
...multiple investigations continue and the multitude of witnesses keeps growing, the possibility narrows that anyone can successfully hide behind deceit or lies. The truth increasingly seems to be the only safe course in this showdown over the credibility of the President...
...almost 3,000,000); Yorty opposes sharp restrictions on growth. Bradley favors a moratorium on highway building; Yorty argues for continued building of highways, which he says "really move a lot of automobiles very efficiently." Bradley thinks oil drilling off Los Angeles beaches was started partly by "deceit and deception" and should now be banned; Yorty insists that "we ought to do everything we can to develop...
...defendants unlawfully, willfully, and knowingly did combine, conspire, confederate and agree together and with each other to commit offenses against the United States . . . to defraud the United States and agencies thereof . . . interfering with and obstructing lawful governmental functions by deceit, craft, trickery and means that are dishonest...
This kind of deceit, spying and burglarizing-directed from within the White House-was an appalling abuse of presidential power. Just how much Nixon knew about any such activity is, of course, one of the central mysteries in the whole Watergate affair. At the least, all of these men expected that there would be no outrage from the Oval Office if their work was-or became-known at that high level...