Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Henry E. Petersen as the key figure in a plot to ruin him, Spiro Agnew is taking on a formidable opponent. A savvy bureaucratic infighter who has risen higher in the Justice Department than any other civil service employee, Petersen has many influential defenders in Washington. He is the plain speaking, rugged Chief of the Criminal Division, whose engagingly blunt testimony before the Senate Watergate committee won the respect of millions of television viewers...
...think we ought to start with the constitutional language in Article I, Section 3. "Judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office ... but the party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to indictment, trial" and so forth. This language is pretty plain. They didn't say that an impeachment must precede an indictment. They provided only that an impeachment would not foreclose an indictment. Second, the Vice President is seeking a privilege, an implied privilege that was denied to the Congress by the Constitution. Congressmen "shall in all cases, except treason, felony...
...marry him and be a housewife. "You've changed, you really have changed," Kathy tells her bitterly, but it's not clear that she's found a happier alternative. One of the reasons for the constant stream of jokes that fills the house, Weller makes plain, is its inhabitants' feeling that their studentdom denies them any serious purpose, that the fun will end in a year or two and was never intended to continue...
...fluke goal typified the kind of game the two teams played all afternoon. It was not your standard 5-0 Crimson rout; Harvard displayed little of the crisp passing and overpowering offense which characterized Crimson soccer teams of the past. To be brutally honest it was nothing but plain old mediocre soccer all game long and boring soccer at that...
...contained the seeds of what many thought would become its own dissolution. The school's original charter provided that Radcliffe's funds and property could be turned over to Harvard College whenever such an arrangement would improve education at the two schools. From the beginning. Harvard made it plain that it was in no way responsible for the "Annex...