Word: untouchedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon and Kissinger took office in 1969 with an implicit electoral mandate for peace. Instead of ending the war as they had promised they continued it for four more long hard years, doubling American casualties, murdering hundreds of thousands more with bombs and napalm, devastating previously untouched areas of Indochina...
Not much of Thnai Toteong still stands. A few concrete-block walls, a post here and there, enormous 150-liter water jars remain curiously intact. Mostly, the little village 20 miles from Phnom-Penh is rubble and charcoal. Seven weeks before, I had driven through Thnai Toteong and stopped off...
Moreover, Dean's refusal to talk further to the committee staff left vast areas of his account still untouched and therefore largely unknown. The staff was unable to question him, for example, about the precise substance of his multiple conversations with the President pending a committee decision on whether...
Schmitt is a good-natured fellow, outgoing and quick to laugh, with a handshake untouched by the chill of outer space. He has black hair, brown eyes, a reported weight of 165 pounds, and - according to biographical data distributed by NASA - a height of 5 feet 9 inches. The Bulletin...
What preposterous assumptions. Dullness does not produce competence. Beyond the shattering moral issues in the Watergate case is the revelation that the Haldeman-Ehrlichman-Colson-Dean staff operation was, for the most part, a tragic failure. Legislative achievements were almost zero. Congress and the federal bureaucracy were systematically alienated. Trouble...