Word: hunts
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...told the Senators that most of his information implicating higher officials came from G. Gordon Liddy, a former White House aide and re-election committee official who had also been convicted in the Watergate bugging. Other such information, he said, came from a former White House consultant, E. Howard Hunt Jr., who had pleaded guilty in the Watergate operation. Thus McCord's charges were based on "hearsay" that is not admissible evidence in a courtroom but was nevertheless invaluable to the committee, which is interested in the ethics of the political spying as much as in illegality...
...Sirica further underscored just how serious a crime he considered the Watergate espionage to be by sentencing the seventh conspirator, G. Gordon Liddy, who, like McCord, had pleaded innocent, to serve up to 20 years in prison and to pay a $40,000 fine. Liddy, who had worked with Hunt in the White House in trying to detect sources of news leaks, apparently got the stiff sentence-and no provision for its review-because he has not shown any sign that he could be persuaded to disclose more about the case. The Watergate crimes, said Sirica in sentencing, were "sordid...
...when Harold Miller eloped for the first time, he was 22-and his bride was 13. Her name was Roberta, but Miller called her Diana, after the virgin Roman goddess of the hunt. Roberta-Diana died at age 20 from the effects of sniffing cleaning fluid to get high...
...pleased they are with the painting. Norton said: Tell Henry that's not the way to ripen tomatoes-on a windowsill in the sun. You can't ripen them off the vine.' " Simon should know. He made his first million putting tomatoes in Hunt's tomato sauce. But Fonda's thumb isn't green just from painting: "I make my own compost and raise tomatoes in my organic garden back of my house...
...energy seemed illimitable. In his last years, Melchior continued to hunt big game in Africa, served as international president of the Danish Royal Guard, and last fall conducted the orchestra at the San Francisco Opera's 50th anniversary concert. He grew as deaf as Beethoven, but his passion for music was not impaired, nor his concern. A sizable portion of his time was devoted to administering the Heldentenor Foundation, which he established in 1968 to encourage new talent in an annual competition...