Word: messing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among those Americans who would like to see the President resign, 86% feel that he has been acting as if he were above the law. and 91% believe that he has failed to get to the bottom of the Watergate mess...
Eisenhower never knew the whole story of Sherman Adams. But when Meade Alcorn, the Republican national chairman, came to his office and said Republican leaders were demanding "the Adams mess" be cleaned up, Ike accepted the verdict. He told Alcorn to tell Adams he must...
...invitation to pay a return visit to the Soviet Union. He had accepted our invitation with thanks. But under the conditions that had developed, with our relations falling to pieces, we couldn't possibly offer our hospitality to someone who had already, so to speak, made a mess at his host's table. To receive Eisenhower without first hearing him apologize would be an intolerable insult to the leadership of our country...
Later, reviewing how the whole mess began, Nixon says, "Mitchell wasn't minding the store and Magruder is a weak fellow ... and then afterwards they compounded it... basically they were trying to protect Mitchell?let's face it." Then there is this exchange...
...powerful by innuendo. Nick Carroway's sense distills the sense of Gatsby, and Carroway's values--the superior morality of the Midwestern small town Christian conscience, the nostalgia for the old American orders under eclipse--judge West Egg. But this movie doles out portions of the narrative like a mess sergeant in an army canteen, everybody gets some: Mr. Gats gets some of Carroway's, Carroway is made to speak what had been silent observation, Daisy and Gatsby even get to act out some of Jordan Baker's. Further, the movie hardhits you with scenery, the shining shots like shiner...