Word: spilling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THIS stuff he knows, and he knows it is important. But he's reticent--the reticence of a trade that keeps to itself, suspicious of anyone who doesn't know what it's really like, belligerent. And he's afraid--he's too much an ironworker to spill everything out at once, thinking of his pals reading the book: the revelations come in spurts and cut themselves short. He's bored: the job has made him feel that it just doesn't matter to write it all down because his readers are bigwigs and wouldn't understand anyway and hell...
Hemispheres does have its share of flaws. All the tables, for example, seem to have one leg that is shorter than the others, and on those occasions when the Bifstek is tough, your efforts to cut it may spill water over you and your friends. And, although the waitresses are friendly, the service is often slow--probably the result of understaffing. If you're in a hurry, you'd better stop next door at Tommy's; if not, be prepared for a very leisurely meal...
...what cost such sudden prosperity? The question, which began as an ecological whisper, eventually rose to a roar as Maine residents took stock of their land and lifestyle. An oil refinery would bring jobs to poor coastal towns Like Eastport, but a single spill might pollute the water from Canada to Kittery. Land developers could expand the tax base, but the quiet, smalltown shops on Maine's streets might be run out of town by tacky shopping malls...
...cover-up began to fall apart after inauguration day. New revelations about high-level involvement in the "illegal entry" began to surface in the press, and later in the spring presidential aide John W. Dean III broke ranks and began to spill the beans to federal prosecutors. Dean, watched by millions on nationwide television, appeared before Sam Ervin's Senate Watergate Committee and told how Nixon had learned of the cover-up even before election day and how Nixon seemed pleased with Dean's efforts to keep White House involvement in the break-in quiet...
Families are a funny breed. They draw, spill, suck and drink the blood they share. They seem to survive everything with dumb granitic tenacity. What they give to each other is measureless, like divine grace; what they take is inexorable, like mortal fate...