Word: traumas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somewhat trite and rhetorical comments indeed, to describe the national trauma left in the wake of the Watergate scandals. But these words from a moderate upstate New York Republican congressman represent the sort of thinking that very well may have Richard Nixon standing trial before the Senate by mid-summer...
...Watergate affair had its faint origin in what was itself a trivial and foolish incident. But from this minor incident, Watergate has expanded on a scale that has plunged our country into what historians call a "crisis of the regime." [This] is a disorder, a trauma, involving every tissue of the nation, conspicuously including its moral and spiritual dimensions...
Lewis said he fears that if Congress were to impeach Nixon within this year or the next, there would be a "backlash." He said that the same trauma which strikes the nation when a president dies in office would come with Nixon's impeachment...
Shepard, Putney and Cox is a high Wasp law firm, dominated, in an odd way, by Beeky Ehninger, a wealthy, well-connected robber baron descendant. Twenty-five years before, Beeky Ehninger had saved the firm by reorganizing it, and now it is facing a similar crisis. In the trauma of merging the law firm with an even bigger and more profitable factory. Auchincloss reveals the personalities of the various partners, associates, and wives. They come across as a pretty average group of people; people who may work a little harder, suffer from a few more neuroses and have a little...
...heated contests against Deer Island House of Correction the conditions almost outdid the Classics. In addition to having to listen to metal doors slamming behind them, the Classics' two basketballs wore out rapidly on the concrete gym floor. But they survived both the trauma and the wear and tear with 107-95 and 96-91 victories...