Word: sordidly
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...suggest that the erstwhile political spies of Watergate, guilty of a sordid and stupid conspiracy, have now become victims of a political counterconspiracy and deserve sympathy...
...would be tragic if Richard Nixon's considerable achievements as President were coupled in history with the sordid business of Watergate?as now seems likely. Yet for a while, at least, one of his most cherished words, "honor," will have a hollow ring...
...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...
...next 30 days or so may turn out to be a crucial period in the sordid history of American intervention in Indochina. The criminality of it all is that while the United States cannot realistically continue to support any of the above-mentioned regimes with even the slightest real prospects of "success," such support may continue nevertheless. It augurs only to bring death and misery to still thousands more Indochinese. Americans who want to have this immoral war end once for all should not let Nixon intimidate them through the use of the returning POWs but should force Nixon...
...burial site both delighted and surprised the village's 300 residents, since Picasso had rarely visited there in recent years. "We chose it partly because my father loved the Provencal light," explained Paulo. "Besides, the majestic surroundings were more worthy of him than Mougins, where he had sordid arguments with the village council. If ever a Picasso museum is created," he added, "Vauvenargues would be a fine place...