Word: dente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard mentor literally cleared his bench, a pleasure which he has been afforded on few occasions this season. As a result of this gesture the Bulldogs were able narrowly to decrease the lead, and in addition every Crimson performer made a dent on the scoring sheets...
Murder or Accident. Union officials were suspicious about her fatal car crash; they called in an independent accident investigator, A.O. Pipkin of Dallas. After inspecting the skid marks and finding a telltale dent in one of the Honda's rear fenders, he concluded that a second car had forced Silkwood's auto off the road-thus implying that Silkwood might have been murdered. But the Oklahoma state highway patrol cited an autopsy showing that her blood contained traces of alcohol and methaqualone, which a doctor had prescribed as a sedative. To the police, it seemed evident that...
...HARRY S. DENT, 44, Nixon's special counsel and political adviser, who devised the 1970 "southern strategy." Pleaded guilty to working with an illegal fund-raising committee called "Operation Townhouse" that distributed money to 1970 congressional candidates; sentenced to one month's probation...
...Dent in Power. Though a Democrat, Sprague had served as first assistant to Republican D.A. Arlen Specter from 1966 to 1974. He so admired his boss that he turned down an offer from Democratic leaders to run for D.A. in his own right. The Democrats then nominated F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, a successful criminal lawyer who trounced Specter in the election. Fitzpatrick wasted no time reorganizing the office. "After all, I campaigned against the operations of this office," he points out. One big change: assistant D.A.s were told they could come directly to the boss with problems. Previously they...
That was an unquestioned dent in Sprague's power, but the flash point between him and Fitzpatrick came over questions about the new D.A.'s ethics. First, local papers reported that after his election and before taking office, Fitzpatrick had held a victory cocktail party. Many of the lawyers who might well have future clients in trouble with the D.A. paid $50 a head to attend the fund raiser. "These parties are given all the time," says Fitzpatrick, who does not deny that the money collected went to him. The state supreme court's disciplinary board...