Word: suffering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Economist seems to suggest that if the U.S. only had a constitutional king who symbolized the nation, it would be a lot easier to dismiss Richard Nixon from the White House since the nation's image of itself would not suffer so grievously in the process. In other words, let politicians govern-and come and go if need be-but let kings embody the dignity of the state...
...Secret Service was actually founded in 1865 to chase down counterfeiters, an activity it still pursues, but since the assassination of William Mc-Kinley in 1901 the Service has also been responsible for protecting the President. The agents assigned to the White House (average annual salary: $17,000) suffer through long periods of boredom when the President is not on display. But when he goes on a trip, whether to San Clemente or Peking, they work under acute tension, always braced, like sprinters on their starting blocks, for the sound of a shot. On a tour the agents are immediately...
There could also be some startling shifts in income in different regions of the U.S. The rush to find new oil deposits in the Southwest and West could fuel booms in those regions. But the East Coast stands to suffer. More dependent on Arab oil than the rest of the country, the highly industrialized region from Boston to Washington might have to chug along on only about 75% of its usual petroleum supply. The full impact of the shutoff is expected in about three weeks, when the last of the shipments from the Persian Gulf are unloaded at American ports...
Jenkins said he thinks this year's squad lacks the overall talent of the previous one. "Physically, there is not comparable talent to last season's. There is a lack of overall size and we suffer from even less bench strength than last year...
...basis of the evidence disclosed to date, Pat Smith, a sometime lobbyist in the Texas state legislature, thinks there are insufficient grounds for impeachment. "We could suffer this trauma every four years, and we can't afford it." Many Southerners blame the press more than Nixon for the Watergate debacle. Says Nick Parker, an advertising man in Birmingham: "A few Democrats and the liberal press-especially the Washington Post-are persecuting the President and tearing up the country...