Word: details
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final official judgment on the impeachment of Richard Nixon was spread massively on the public record last week in a 528-page report by the House Judiciary Committee. Supported by 200 pages of factual detail on Nixon's Watergate-related actions as President, the committee unanimously recommended that he should have been impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate for obstructing justice in trying to cover up the true origins of the 1972 wiretap and burglary of Democratic national headquarters. Although Nixon's resignation has rendered the matter moot, the full House accepted the report...
...desk by Nov. 1, and to introduce a preliminary report by Sept. 30. Actually, the blueprint will not be an action program, but rather a listing of options for debate within Government and eventual White House decision. To facilitate such action, the FEA will spell out in exhaustive detail the economic, environmental and diplomatic consequences of the various options, which it has tentatively grouped into four categories...
...want to follow Harvard politics in any kind of detail, you should probably know the names of at least the larger groups. Here are some of them...
...expect him to pull a toad out of his holster, and you never quite believe that he can draw thrice in the time it takes ordinary men to draw once. And you shouldn't. For this is not the legendary West, but the tall-tale West, where realistic detail is introduced merely to lend credence to one of the year's most expert whoppers...
...having backing from Detroit; and a series of once-promising baseball players who never made it. Failures and dying breeds are Hemphill's stock-in-trade, but it never seems as if he's writing the same piece over and over with different characters because his eye for detail and dialogue and nuance remain sharp...