Word: lying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign director for election expenses. Roybal actually pocketed the cash, investigators claim. If so, he too could be expelled from the House on the recommendation of the ethics committee. If such action is not taken, says one investigator, "Congress is saying it's O.K. for witnesses to lie under oath...
...might be termed basse cuisine. During the course of the book, he partakes of not one but two meals prepared by the legendary French chef Paul Bocuse and musters, at best, a joyless respect. The most positive thing he can say shows where his heart and stomach truly lie: "The truffle soup I ate as a first course could be honorably compared with the andouille gumbo turned out by the Jaycees of Laplace, Louisiana...
After reading the specifications of the ten theologians for a new Pope, I can see that the problem doesn't lie in finding a Pope to fit the Catholic religion, but in finding a religion that fits the Catholic Pope they want...
...thought of the universe as quiet, serene and essentially unchanging. Now it is known to be the scene of incredible violence?of exploding galaxies and stars, of prodigiously energetic quasars, a universe that still literally reverberates from its fiery birth. Many scientists are all but convinced that black holes lie at the root of many of these awesome events. They are fascinated and somewhat frustrated by the fact that the immense gravity of black holes prevents any escape from them. As a consequence, says Harvard Physicist Larry Smarr, "there are parts of the universe from which, in principle, we cannot...
...stars are revolving with wobbly motions, as if disturbed by a center of enormous gravity. Herbert Gursky and Andrea Dupree of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics believe that these stars "may well be orbiting a black hole with the mass of a thousand suns." Still other candidates lie far beyond the Milky Way. At least two galaxies, known as M87 and NGC6251 in astronomy catalogues, seem to be undergoing violent upheavals, quite possibly because of black holes inside them...