Word: panels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the party. Just before Weicker prepared to leave for four days of sun and tennis in Sarasota, Fla. ("I have no modesty on the tennis courts"), he was assailed by a big Republican fund raiser, Gordon Reed. Replied Weicker: "One of the reasons I am sitting on that panel is so [Reed] can continue to make comments like that without having to worry about retribution...
...tons of mud, silt, rotting butchers' meat, excrement and sticky black fuel oil on the city's stone and stucco. At that moment, the future of the city and its artistic heritage seemed uncertain. The water was everywhere-soaking into the fragile wood of old carvings and panel paintings, expanding its cells and cracking it, seeping up inside walls and working outward through the surface of their frescoes, causing bloom, mold growth and discoloration, flaking the surface of porous stone like puff pastry...
...Cimabue not had the nails countersunk and covered with tiny wooden plugs. Exposed, they would have corroded, ruining more paint. Until 1969, the surviving pigment was too soft to touch; then it was painstakingly removed and cleaned. Soon it will be glued back on Cimabue's original panel...
...kind." But unless the President will yield the tapes, there is no sure way of knowing whether they contain such evidence. The dilemma argues for some compromise solution in which the tapes would be heard in private, either by judges or, to preserve the separation of powers, by a panel of citizens, as Senator Howard Baker suggested...
...goodly portion of the nation's lawyers seem to be in considerable anguish over the way the Watergate panel is questioning the witnesses. The letters, calls and telegrams pour in to Committee Chairman Sam Ervin with suggestions for questions, psychological tactics, and denunciations for missing opportunities to bludgeon witnesses to pulp...