Word: messing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stefan Kanfer's "Words from Watergate" [Aug. 13] is the most incisive analysis of the Watergate mess that I have yet read. How right he is in realizing that those tidy adjectives, nouns and verbs can soften the grossest indiscretions and crimes...
...Stefan Kanfer's Essay exposed another bit of hard truth concerning the Watergate mess. All the beating around the bush in the Watergate hearings so perfectly symbolizes the unfortunate breakdown in communication that has been paralyzing the real function of our Government-representing the people by means of a general understanding of truth. I, like other proud Americans, have been disillusioned by this large scandal, but hope that the outcome of the hearings will only mean a great improvement in our Government's involvement with the American people...
...most awsome thing you'll have to face Freshman Week has got to be the registration line. As usual that debacle will occur at Memorial Hall, once the mess hail in which all Harvard men ate when they weren't dining in their chosen club. The line--even if you get there an hour before registration is slated to begin--will stretch for what seems like miles, and once inside, you'll be treated to your first real look at the Harvard bureaucracy...
Those words, in the President's TV speech last week, were part of an appeal to the nation to turn its attention from Watergate to other pressing problems. If anyone needed reminding that an all-pervasive mess in the economy is the most urgent trouble, it probably was the President himself. To millions of Americans, that mess is the issue, burrowing beneath politics to the gut-level question of what a family can afford to buy for its next meal...
...Phase IV opened last week with a burst of price-increase announcements on many other items -steel, tires, cars. Interest rates are soaring for both giant corporations and individuals, and many would-be house buyers simply cannot get mortgage loans. Among economists, there is a growing fear that the mess will end in a 1974 recession. In fact, Democratic Representative Wright Patman, chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, charged last week that "we are in a recession right now" and "the big banks and the Federal Reserve are making a depression...