Word: seep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...became a master at ignoring comments that would seep out of the mouths of unthinking minds. I was plagued by arrogant comments like: "Californians are lightweights and are only concerned with flaunting their tanned bodies," or "If California can produce a Nixon, it's got to be a sick place." At first I would fight back and defend myself from further attack. But I soon realized that a defensive strategy would never quell the ignorance of such stereotyped ideas...
...White House since the first batch of tape transcripts was released April 30. ABC News President Elmer Lower began looking ahead even earlier: in June 1973 he recommended that outlines of coverage of a Nixon departure be drawn up; by Jan. 14 of this year, the network's SEEP (Special Events Emergency Plan) was fleshed out on paper. Prepared over several months, the New York Times's "quit package" grew to seven ready-to-print pages on the Nixon presidency...
...full impact of the transcripts is just beginning to seep in. The reaction of the public is now making itself felt on the members of Congress, and the public is dismayed, shocked and appalled...
...delaying their issuance for half a day so that St. Clair's brief could have an unrivaled circulation, the White House won a few hours of suspended judgment. But once the transcripts became available and began to be plumbed, the severity of the President's difficulties soon began to seep across the capital and the rest of the nation. Not many Republicans, who had initially rejoiced at his speech, had the temerity of Vice President Gerald Ford, who proclaimed that the transcripts "show the President to be innocent." With few exceptions, the press analyses were devastating...
...debilitating guerrilla war continues in the northern half of the country, and the irregulars of FRELIMO seep steadily southward into areas where most of the white population of 220,000 out of a total of 8 million is concentrated. Guerrillas attacked the railway to Rhodesia for the first time this year. Only two weeks ago, they ambushed traffic on the main road linking the second city of Beira (pop. 400,000) with the capital of Lourenço Marques (pop. 700,000), killing three truck drivers. Such events temper optimism with apprehension...