Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lord Chancellor for putting the seal of trust to an ignominious treaty, an admiral for neglecting the safeguard of the sea, and others for appointing bad men to office, taking bribes, purchasing jobs, subverting the fundamental laws, delaying justice. When the Americans adopted the impeachment process, they made it plain that impeachment was designed to cleanse an office, and not to impose punishment. Impeachment, wrote Justice Joseph Story in a famous commentary, is "a proceeding purely of a political nature. It is not so much designed to punish an offender as to secure the state against gross official misdemeanors." Charles...
...just plain disgusting," coach Edo Marion said yesterday. "We were fencing well, the officiating was good, and only a Harvard team could end up losing in those conditions...
...plain that many are still reluctant to look upon the crimes known as Watergate as sufficient cause for action against the President. There is no stolen property, no body count, no looted treasury. Moral transgressions, while quickly deplored, are not so easily brought to judgment, especially in a nation whose basic life-style is still fundamentally intact. But people are feeling the weight of the developing crises, and it is NIXON & KISSINGER growing heavier. Hugh Sidey
...just endowed a $50,000 prize through the World Wildlife Fund, for outstanding service to conservation. The place: Getty's vast Tudor manor, Sutton Place, 25 miles from London. Its spacious gardens and lawns are surrounded by double fences covered with barbed wire and are patrolled by plain-clothes guards along with 25 German shepherd attack dogs. McWhirter's report...
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