Word: squalidity
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When it is all over, it may be one of the most eloquent stories that democracy has written. Not Richard Nixon and his squalid crew of fanatics, who created the scandal. But the men, women, nation and system that patiently, fairly and inexorably unraveled the mess and moved to set it right...
...Squalid Norm...
...those embarrassed by excellence: the liberals who roll that stone of Sisyphus known as equality. In their search for a standard of equality, these new egalitarians never dare to look up. They seek the lowest common denominator and establish it as the norm so that no one, however squalid or vulgar, need be left out of the American Dream...
...years when a President has had dark thoughts-and perhaps questionable conversations-about how to counter his opponents and to lift himself out of crises. But there is a body of bipartisan opinion among the men around former Chief Executives that the presidency has never before experienced such a squalid episode...
...television interview after his Commons speech, Wilson dismissed the row as a "silly little diversion" and a "seamy, squalid press story which has now been put into its proper context." The affair is not likely to blow over so easily. If nothing else, the disposition of Wilson's libel suits against the newspapers will keep the matter before the public for some time. Then there is a Scotland Yard investigation of an increasingly murky subplot involving Land Developer Ronald Milhench, 32. He has claimed that he received a letter discussing terms for the parcel that Field was trying...