Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This Attorney General, however, is fighting every scandal to hit Washington since Nixon resigned, since it was proved to America that when there's smoke, there's sinister fire. For two decades it's been an accusers' market and a political feast. This time, it's Republicans at the trough, and they're not about to leave unsated...
Playtime for the kids, on this Thanksgiving weekend of 1973, means sexual one-upmanship. Precocious Wendy Hood (Christina Ricci) insists on wearing a Nixon mask during foreplay with Mikey Carver and goads his shy younger brother Sandy (Adam Hann-Byrd) into a game of mutual exhibitionism. Wendy's brother Paul (Tobey Maguire) goes to a Manhattan party where, once again, a pretty girl treats him as just a friend. For the adults the big social event is a Key Party. The men drop their car keys into a bowl, the women blindly pick them out, and new sexual partnerships...
...Nixon, director of federal relations and the University's main lobbyist, said institutions capitalized on the Clinton Administration's spotlight on education to pass the bill. Long-time ally of the University, Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) spearheaded efforts to push through the provision...
...didn't Get Smart either. Not once did I come home from school and settle down on the couch for a little Gilligan's Island or Magilla Gorilla. There was no All in the Family in my family. M*A*S*H, Mannix, Merv, David Frost talking with Richard Nixon, Howard Cosell talking with Howard Cosell, Sunday-morning cartoons, late-night movies--we had none of it. Or, rather, my mother was having none of it. By her decree, ours was the only house in the neighborhood without a television...
DIED. CLARENCE KELLEY, 85, sturdy, reliable FBI chief who restored respectability to the agency; in Kansas City, Mo. Earning a reputation for incorruptibility at the Kansas City police department, Kelley was appointed by Richard Nixon in 1973 to head the bureau, which had been compromised by Watergate and J. Edgar Hoover's autocratic legacy. Kelley brought the FBI into the computer age, using advanced technologies to crack down on white-collar crime...