Word: scots
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...what about Nixon? "Only the worst Nixon-hater would want to see him in jail. People say he went scot free. He didn't go scot free. I would hope to have an opportunity to talk to him about this some day. I can't say he would see me, but I'd tell him what, as a young man, I've experienced. For one thing, how I've become immune to attacks. Magruder, Segretti, Krogh and others, we've done wrong. We've admitted it. We're no longer burdened...
...bull session. "I really want to bind up the wounds," he said. "If I'm going to do that, then I've got to reach those kids who dodged the draft or deserted. I'm not for unlimited amnesty. Deserters can't go home scot free when the kid next door might have been killed in Viet Nam. Can't we fashion some way to let them earn their way back?" The effects of this pronouncement, formalized in Ford's speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago, stunned the vets...
...Scot Free. At the very least, they knew their Watergate history. The youths asked for and got immunity from prosecution because the authorities wanted to uncover what they thought to be a wide answer-stealing conspiracy before examination day. The quick grant of immunity was apparently made in the belief that the four conspirators would implicate others. But the youths, as it turned out, had pulled off the caper by themselves. They had jimmied the principal's desk, stolen the key to the strongbox, and photostated the answer sheets. The copies were then sold at prices as high...
Nixon bears down hard on Petersen not to grant immunity to Dean. With immunity, Dean can get off scot-free or escape with prosecution for a minor offense in exchange for talking freely. Petersen tries to resist Nixon, but the pressure is intense...
...dazzling fiddle tune in half a dozen incarnations representing different fiddling traditions. Cathal McConnel and Robin Morton, their champion flutist and percussionist, have rich, lilting voices to match their meticulous musicianship. The group's original guitarist, Dick Gaughan, has been replaced in the last year by, I believe, another Scot or a Welshman. Together, they can call upon an amazing variety of musical backgrounds...