Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beating around the bush in the Watergate hearings so perfectly symbolizes the unfortunate breakdown in communication that has been paralyzing the real function of our Government-representing the people by means of a general understanding of truth. I, like other proud Americans, have been disillusioned by this large scandal, but hope that the outcome of the hearings will only mean a great improvement in our Government's involvement with the American people...
...President's efforts to get back to business, Watergate pressures are not likely to subside any time soon. The public remains skeptical about his involvement in the scandal, as the latest Gallup poll indicates. After his nationally televised speech on Watergate on Aug. 15, approval of Nixon's performance as President rose from 31% to 38%, but 58% of the people who viewed the speech said that they were not satisfied with it. The Senate hearings reopen this month, and there are likely to be ample further causes for presidential tension...
...will be like throwing red meat into the lions' cage," a Washington correspondent predicted, imagining the mood of President Nixon's then still-to-be-scheduled first press conference since Watergate blew up into a major scandal. When the President finally summoned reporters to a confrontation at San Clemente last week-after deciding, out of some mysterious love of surprises, to give scarcely an hour's notice-they were ready to pounce. The result was the most grueling public interrogation of a President in memory...
...itself on its continuing vigilance in the service of freedom. Watergate, we are told, has once again validated the importance of the Fourth Estate as a vital bulwark of democracy. Even Richard Nixon, an old enemy, has capitulated out of respect: after concluding his April 30 speech about the scandal, he told the press to keep up the pressure...
...philosophy. So it was something of a shock last week when Anderson took a deep dive into rumination and surfaced aglistening with optimism. Taking a long view of his trade, Anderson raised a rhetorical question about the muckraker's role in a time of widespread corruption and scandal. Might not he further weaken the national spirit by encouraging cynicism and despair...