Word: selected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington federal judge, John J. Sirica, applied intense pressure on the wiretappers after their conviction in January, urging them to break their silence. A determined federal grand jury in Washington, which had handled the original Watergate indictments last summer, then got firmer leadership from aroused prosecuting attorneys. And a select Senate committee headed by North Carolina's Sam J. Ervin Jr. moved rapidly to explore the whole sordid Watergate scandal in televised public hearings...
...Christian Science Monitor that these visits are not "big partying occasions" and it is not true "that Frank Sinatra and I are going around raising hell together. I respect and admire him very much. And I'm not about to let any rumors interfere with my right to select my own friends." Quietly, Agnew has been visiting compatible intellectuals, possibly in search of stimulation on some of the deeper emerging national issues. They include Semanticist S.I. Hayakawa, Futurist Herman Kahn and Historian Daniel Boorstin...
...none, and that problem is in the very nature of political art. The method of conventional political films--Costa-Gavras' Z and The Confession, Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers -- is to assume that the way to political commitment is through faithful depiction of political reality. So they select an important event and recreate it on screen, aiming to provoke a specific chain of emotions and to construct a specific moral stance...
...According to the Gospel of John, Nicodemus, a Pharisee, came to Jesus at night and asked him about his teachings and his divinity. - Besides Ervin, Baker and Weicker, the select committee consists of Democrats Herman E. Talmadge, Daniel K. Inouye and Joseph M. Montoya, and Republican Edward J. Gurney...
...well-oiled businessmen drop some $500 million yearly at more than 1,000 bars and restaurants. Prices effectively screen out patrons who have only their own money to spend: dinner for two at Osaka's Yamato-ya restaurant costs about $230, while four Scotch-and-waters at a select Tokyo bar can run to $120, including a tray of hors d'oeuvres and fruit juice for hostesses that the bar employs to keep conversation going. At Osaka's Club Azami, a patron simply signs a tab, the club bills his company, and the bill is paid with...