Word: roped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...votes cast in the House last December against Ford's nomination, nine came from the committee's liberal Democrats, including Rodino. For months the White House has been complaining that these devout Democrats are as prejudiced against Nixon as a lynch mob that has already tossed its rope over a lamppost. Indeed, Massachusetts' Robert F. Drinan, 53, a Jesuit priest, last July became the first Congressman to introduce a resolution calling for Nixon's impeachment. (Father Drinan recently received a message saying: "If you can't impeach him, exorcise him.") California's Jerome...
...Question. His eventual decision to leave the monastery and return to Eu rope and a life in business came during a period of discouragement. He seemed to be getting nowhere. He went to say goodbye to his master, who accepted his departure as simply as he had accepted his arrival. The master raised his spirits, reassuring him that "by leaving here nothing is broken. Your training continues . . . You are now a little awake, so awake that you can never fall asleep again...
...have not lost command of yourself, and realize clearly what this could lead to, then, Mr. President, you and I should not now pull on the ends of the rope in which you have tied the knot of war, because the harder you and I pull, the tighter this knot will become...
...Therefore, if there is no intention of tightening this knot, thereby dooming the world to the catastrophe of thermonuclear war, let us not only relax the forces straining on the ends of the rope, let us take measures for untying this knot...
Aside from its iconoclasm, one of the most striking features of Stone's journalism was his means of locating information for his exposes. Because he had no opportunity in the fifties to make inside government contacts, Stone turned to published sources and speeches to find the rope which government liars obligingly provided for their own hangings...