Word: forgers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recalled forgeries perpetrated by such Watergate "dirty tricksters" as Howard Hunt, who doctored State Department cables, and Donald Segretti, who used Edmund Muskie's stolen campaign stationery to disseminate malicious falsehoods about other Democratic candidates. "In fact, you could say that Nixon was a sort of forger," muses Magnuson. "In his efforts to defend his beleaguered Administration, he altered the transcripts of his office tapes, a fact that only became clear when the tapes themselves were released." Magnuson's present pace of cover writing is not so frenetic as it was in the Watergate days. But even...
...were only sexier, it might have rated recognition as the world's oldest profession. Ever since humankind became literate, civilization has been bedeviled by the forger's determination to deceive by mimicking the writing of others. When a pharaoh first fashioned a seal to protect the identity of his scribblings, a forger lurked with intent to melt, alter and reseal. Around the 5th century B.C. the Athenian poet Onomakritos was expelled from that ancient city for tampering with the oracles of Musaeus. His crime, unlike those of most forgers, had an unintended benefit. Thereafter, whenever a prophecy failed to materialize...
...known basketball fact that a team can play the toughest defense known to man, but if it doesn't score, it won't win. And after losing, 61-45. Last night at Briggs Cage to Dartmouth's Big Green Scoring Machine, the Harvard women's basketball team won't forger that fact...
...withdrew $500,000 in $100 bills from the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago, and vanished from sight. He had parked the Jeep at the Des Moines municipal airport. On the front seat he left two books: the Bible and the autobiography of a reformed check forger entitled Catch...
Henry was indicted for the 1972 robbery of a Norfolk, Va., bank and, pending trial, held in a cell block with a forger named Edward Nichols. A secret FBI informant, Nichols had been told to "be alert to" any statements Henry made about the robbery. The two became so friendly that Henry confided facts that helped convict...