Word: nastier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Watergate cast, few had a reputation for being tougher, wilier, nastier or more tenaciously loyal to Richard Nixon than onetime Presidential Adviser Charles W. Colson. The former Marine captain is alleged by Jeb Stuart Magruder to have urged the original Watergate bugging and has been implicated in a host of other dirty tricks, including the forgery of a State Department cable. At the peak of his influence, he proudly boasted that his commitment to the re-election of the President was such that "I would walk over my grandmother if necessary...
...CREEP, too, was strongly tied to the President, Nixon the man would maintain a low-key profile, and they would exploit his carefully publicized role as President. The beauty of this strategy lay in the tight "security in the national interest" the President controlled to keep his nastier acts from the public eye. So detente was played up, the bombings of Cambodia were to remain a secret, and the employment of 15,000 to 20,000 Thai mercenaries in Laos, in direct violation of congressional edict, would not be officially revealed until Ambassador Godley testified before Congress while Watergate...
...ground of transience, of irrational shiftlessness, that Wester mann's work has its affinities to that of other artists in the Chicago show. But their work is blacker, nastier and-in contrast to his demonic refinement-exuberantly gross. A work like June Leafs Ascension of Pig Lady, of which Woman-Theater, 1968, is a detail, is as nearly without formal interest as a work of art can be. Lush, coarse and obesely theatrical, it makes Red Grooms look like Mondrian. Gladys Nilsson's punningly titled Baroquen Oats (broken oats? baroque notes?) is a joyful orgy of animal...
...Chase Smith and eleven women in the House. The first woman in Congress, Jeannette Rankin, elected from a Montana constituency in 1916 and still starchy at 91, ventured recently that if she had it to do all over again she would, with just one change: "I'd be nastier...
...exert more leverage on us than we have been willing to exert on the regime." Worse still was the fact that American assistance, particularly after the resumption of full aid in September, was looked upon by the Greek people as American support of one of the world's nastier regimes...