Word: deeding
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...both instances, the loyalists insisted, there was no evidence that Nixon had approved the acts. Moreover, since the political audits never were carried out, New Jersey's Charles Sandman declared that to impeach Nixon for that would be to be punish him "for a thought, not a deed...
...raked in the argument over his failure to pay $420,000 in income taxes until public revelations forced an investigation. No one defended Nixon's tax deduction for his vice-presidential papers valued at $576,000-especially since that deduction was found to be based on a backdated deed. Even all-out Defender Delbert Latta said that Nixon had been guilty of "bad judgment and gross negligence." Mayne called it "a very sorry example... of American citizenship...
...worldly failure" ... "News like sensuality is a passing excitement; perhaps the ultimate fantasy of all"). His characters-including a Who's Who of English politics, journalism and literature-are wickedly sketched, from the most obscure London banker ("The very texture of his face was like a parchment deed made out in his favour") to General de Gaulle ("The face of a man born to lead a lost cause, with the additional sorrow that it would ostensibly triumph...
...snatches the deed to her home from the poor heroine, the movie villain always sneers that "it's all perfectly legal." In real life, eviction can be just as cruel. One spring day in 1972 when some prospective buyers stopped by, Lillian K. Ware, 58, a black private nurse, learned for the first time that she no longer owned her $25,000 home in Evanston, Ill.; the title had been taken over some months before by a local real estate speculator. Barring some legal miracle, Mrs. Ware's subsequent two-year court battle against tough lawyers...
...state level that year. He has transformed that obscure office into a political force by pushing young-voter registration and pressing enforcement of campaign-disclosure laws. It was at Brown's urging that his staff, which is charged with supervising notaries, unearthed the fact that the deed of gift for President Nixon's vice-presidential papers to the National Archives had been predated (and notarized) by Nixon Lawyer Frank DeMarco...