Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There was no dispute that Mitchell had sat through three meetings, two of them as Attorney General, at which bugging plans were discussed. Thus he had a motive to join the coverup. But did he approve the eavesdropping at Democratic National Committee headquarters during the third meeting? Did he suggest that some of the files on the bungled operation be burned? Did he lie to the grand jury? Mitchell admitted approving one payment to the original Watergate burglary defendants, but did he know that its purpose was to silence them? The Government's evidence for affirmative answers...
...Year, I suggest nobody-a blank cover to dramatize in particular the U.S. lack of leadership...
Although the final results will not be in until the end of the month, the early returns suggest that this holiday season may turn out to be the toughest in many years. As pre-Christmas buying went into what in more prosperous times would have been full swing a week ago, nationwide retail sales were about 5% higher than they had been at the same time last year. But the fact that consumer prices have risen more than 12% since then means that in real terms, retailers' receipts have actually fallen off fairly sharply...
...recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, the only one to mention them, the Magi are not the familiar three kings of Christmas legend (later piety gave them names, ages, races and crowns), but rather an unspecified number of astrologers, perhaps from Babylon. Even in that guise, some critics suggest, their existence is questionable, possibly merely a preaching device used by the evangelist to suggest the import and universality of the astonishing event: God become...
...John," she says after a pause. "If I suggest it, he'll think I want to see my old boy friends...