Word: sidetrack
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been so combative in the hearings. "He speaks up," said an admiring Washington attorney. "He's had Ervin off on a lot of tangents and byways." A lawyer who is "thorough to an annoying fault," according to one of his partners, Wilson confidently barged into the fray-to sidetrack a questioner, to give his client a chance to gather his resources, and usually in the real hope of making a point or barring the question. Sample exchange after Ervin asked himself a rhetorical question...
...more deeply into the planning of Watergate and the coverup. White House memos described efforts to set up an illegal security apparatus in 1970. CIA memos under mined the President's Watergate defense by showing that politics, far more than national security, motivated the White House attempt to sidetrack the investigation. As the scandal has unfolded, the Nixon team has disintegrated. Now out of work and in danger of indictment, each man is trying to save his own skin by blaming somebody else...
...what of the book's occasional gratuitous mention of Hollywood personalities whom Liz claims to have known and loved? And what of its nasty little attacks on Robert Kennedy, whom, as attorney general, Liz blames for many of her legal pratfalls? Anything to sidetrack the conversation onto safer, more substantive ground...
...talks about force reduction should start before progress has been made on Berlin. Bonn retreated from that position quickly, since NATO long ago suggested such talks without prior negotiation. But the West Germans had a point when they pleaded that other negotiations should not be allowed to undermine or sidetrack the Berlin bargaining. Chancellor Willy Brandt, showing up unexpectedly at a meeting of NATO Defense Ministers at Mittenwald, Bavaria, emphasized that "new initiatives should not be permitted to serve as an excuse for lessening the intensity with which the negotiations over Berlin are being pursued." Later in the week, addressing...
...chance to defeat him. Continuing to stall, they subjected the loyalists to a kind of drop-by-drop water torture, engineering one-by-one announcements of new anti-Carswell Senators. Then, last month, Brooke, Bayh and others hit upon a device that they thought would allow troubled Senators to sidetrack the nomination without taking the full heat of voting against it. They proposed sending the matter back to the Judiciary Committee for further study ?and there it would almost certainly die. By March 24, Republican Robert Griffin of Michigan warned Nixon that the Democrats needed to pick up only...