Word: lies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Still, Republicans have managed to score a few points off Craig. In a testy exchange with South Carolina's Bob Inglis, the White House lawyer got boxed into defending the perjury rap by making the argument that if you don't think you lied about something, it isn't really a lie. "Republicans made Craig defend Clinton a little more than he was prepared to do," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "They succeeded in reminding everyone about the President's evasiveness...
...whose story was sympathetic to his side, and who got caught up in the mess, may be less fortunate. Julie Hiatt Steele's lawyer has been informed by independent counsel Kenneth Starr that Steele will probably be indicted soon for perjury. The indictment is expected to charge that Steele lied under oath when she accused someone else of lying: her former friend Kathleen Willey. Willey has said she told Steele about receiving an unwanted advance from the President. Steele maintains Willey did not say anything about the incident until she asked Steele to lie about it to a reporter...
...Square, and I still don't know what happened to them. Could a phenomenon--some sort of Bermuda Triangle for small fowl--have swallowed up both the sooty waddlers in Trafalgar Square and the sleek homing pigeons who flew over the Mid-Atlantic states? The answer, I realized, might lie forever in a sort of phantom file of mine that's growing thicker and thicker--the lost follow-up. Meanwhile, at my wife's insistence, I drained the pipes...
Robert McCormick (1880-1955), owner of the Chicago Tribune, cultivated presidential enemies the way other men do orchids, winning Franklin Roosevelt's special hatred for publishing, on the eve of World War II, secret War Department plans that put the lie to F.D.R.'s professed neutrality. McCormick traveled the world aboard his own luxuriously outfitted B-17 bomber that included a swivel chair mounted in the plane's picture-window nose. From this vantage point, he offered readers his judgments of the nations of the earth, finding most of them filthy, lazy and wanting in Midwestern virtue. From Libya...
...soothing, English-accented voice. He briefly demonstrated the three rows of strings on the double harp (a seeming irony), which encompass all the notes of a piano. He also explained the necessity of reaching through the strings on the outer rows to reach the sharps and flats which lie in the middle row, which made all the more obvious the tremendous skill and agility required to play the harp as beautifully as Lawrence-King does...