Word: proceeded
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After the plane landed, recalled one passenger, the doors burst open and Israeli troops boarded. They ordered the passengers to put their hands over their heads and exit one at a time, men first, and proceed to a small hall for questioning. When the grilling was over and the Israelis were satisfied no commandos were onboard, refreshments were passed around. "Every one of them spoke Arabic," marveled one woman. "It was amazing." Apparently she had never heard of Oriental Jews...
There is the fact that the President approved a plan for domestic surveillance which included blatantly illegal activities and which so offended J. Edgar Hoover that Hoover refused to proceed with the plan unless the President gave written permission for FBI agents to break the law in order to carry out the plan...
...learned that Marx had been interviewed by the FBI and that he and Hoover were not close friends; "the last time they ever met was 30 years ago in Dinty Moore's," a restaurant in Manhattan. The committee produced a letter to Krogh in which Hoover offered to proceed with all relevant interviews. Ehrlichman dismissed this as "papering the file." The agent who authorized the Marx interview, TIME has confirmed, was disciplined by Hoover because he had ignored the director's cantankerous objection to the interview. But Marx had been quizzed and had revealed nothing of significance...
...similar pattern emerges as the Watergate hearings proceed. Some, like Jeb Magruder and John Dean, seem swamped by feelings of guilt and self-recrimination. Others, like John Mitchell, gruffly deny any wrongdoing (as they see it), and seem quite willing to rape the Constitution again at their next convenience. Meanwhile, the White House, which once espoused "benign neglect" (guess who thought that one up) at the expense of our black population, now espouses benign neglect with regard to the Watergate hearings...
...Sixties was a period of prolonged and widely varied domestic crises," Michener informed his readers, "that did and did not have to do with the war." Presumably, this is not the sort of sentence that makes Michener's books best-sellers, although he does proceed to paint an appealing picture of thousands of perplexed Americans flocking to his Ohio home for guidance on the difficult question of whether to impeach President Nixon. He advised them not to; the shilly-shallying ambiguity of the sentence I've quoted suggests the reason...