Word: dig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SUCH A step is not the answer to Harvard's problems, but the Yale system has managed to do away with many of the drawbacks which cripple Harvard's assignment plan. At Yale freshmen do not have a year to dig up every stereotype but instead spend their first year becoming involved in their college. By assigning Houses in the summer Harvard could virtually eliminate most stereotypes...
According to the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, Haldeman tried to get North Carolina Republicans to "dig up" any information that might discredit Senator Ervin before his committee investigating Watergate opened its hearings. Haldeman's approach, as confirmed by TIME, was made in phone calls to Harry Dent, a former Special Counsel to the President. Dent passed the Haldeman suggestion on to Frank Rouse, North Carolina's Republican chairman. Both Dent and Rouse considered Ervin's integrity unassailable. They gave Haldeman no help...
...round," says Lady Bird. "Lyndon never cut the strings between himself and old friends, and they've been marvelous in thinking of things to do. They know a bridge game is my favorite way to push a button and escape." Other friends have invited her to Mexico to dig for Aztec artifacts and given parties for her in Washington and New York. "You notice the extraordinary generosity of people," she says. Then she adds: "To be honest, there is disappointment too, when you realize that some friendships change because Lyndon is gone...
...took a vindictive shot at Republican Senator Charles Percy for leading the passage of a Senate resolution urging the appointment of an independent prosecutor to dig into the deepening mess of Watergate. "Percy?his target is running for President," Nixon said. "He will never be as long as I'm around." Dry chuckling rose through the room, and one or two present clapped in approval. More calmly, the President concluded, "We have much to do. We must get on with...
...large news organizations, precisely the ones assailed by Spiro Agnew and others, that mustered the resources and courage to dig out the facts and present them to a national audience. Smaller newspapers and local TV stations, often patted on the head by the Administration for their "straight" reporting, simply lacked the means...