Word: lying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other Presidents wiretapped for personal purposes, misused the IRS, CIA and FBI, lied to the American people, employed dirty campaign tricks against their opponents-as has been fully reported in the press. Nixon, uniquely, did all of those things-and more. He also cheated massively on his income tax, used federal funds to furnish personal residences, told his aides in effect to lie to grand juries, altered (and probably destroyed) evidence in a criminal case, lied to the top Justice Department officials investigating those crimes, ordered the payment of hush money to convicted criminals, offered a prestigious...
...really knows how much oil and natural gas lie beneath the choppy Atlantic off the U.S. East Coast. But a year ago, some 40 oil companies were willing to pay $1.1 billion just for the right to find out. They bought leases from the Department of the Interior on half a million choice acres of the Baltimore Canyon. The tracts lie 50 to 90 miles off the coast, far enough over the horizon so that drilling rigs would be invisible from the shore; the main lease area is opposite Atlantic City, N.J. But before drilling could begin, a federal district...
Researchers seeking the cause of multiple sclerosis, a disabling disease involving damage to the protective sheathing around nerve fibers, have long suspected that the answer might lie in a delayed reaction to a viral infection contracted years in the past. One suspect has been the measles virus, but 90% or more of all Americans in the prevaccination era got measles, while only a fraction of 1% developed MS. Now three New Jersey physicians have developed preliminary data suggesting that exposure to pet dogs may be related...
...with Gemma that naughtiness enters the picture. She has cooked up a scheme-unnecessarily devious, since no one seriously opposes it-for Hamish to lie with Elsa, who will then hatch out the child that she, Gemma, wants but cannot give birth to. She herself, more to serve iniquity than to requite passion, will bed with Victor. "Love," she tells Elsa, is "gene calling to gene, as country cats call to each other across fields...
...finished with what sused to be called Woodstock Nation. Pierre Joseph Proudhon warned about "the fecundity of the unexpected." The present comparative quiet probably will not last. Issues such as nuclear energy, the arms race (the neutron bomb), the environment, the economy, unemployment and the urban underclass all lie in wait for anyone who approaches the future complacently. It would of course be difficult for history to duplicate the long, wild hallucination of the '60s. But Rahv's ten-year rule applies to historical pauses as well as upheavals. The cycle will surely come around again...