Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Magic. Soon after, they begin to pick flaws in each other, to break out into raspy little headachy tiffs. Yet everything seems contained. The we-ness of the marriage web is tenacious even when its strands are mundane realities like dental appointments, plumbing repairs and dinner every Sunday with the in-laws. Then one day Johan tells Marianne that he has fallen in love with a young student in his university seminar and is leaving to be with her. All the blood seems to drain out of Marianne's body. Ullmann even manages to make her lambent sapphire-blue...
Satan's Power. The Ford group is only one of an intricate web of groups and individuals-almost an underground network-stretching well across religious and political boundaries, all of them part of a small but growing spiritual renaissance in Washington. It involves both those who have been hoisted to power through Watergate and those who were toppled by it. Quie, for instance, also prays with a Monday morning group that includes Senator Harold Hughes, occasionally Senator Mark Hatfield, and-from January to July-Charles Colson. When Colson went off to prison last month to begin serving...
...misdeeds did not begin with the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, but were it not for that bungled burglary and the subsequent coverup, most or all of the offenses might have gone unnoticed and unpunished. Why the President allowed himself to become entrapped in the web of events that followed the crime is a puzzle. Indeed, there is a great deal about Watergate that will only be sorted out after much time has passed. But much is already known. Here is a recapitulation of the critical events that destroyed Nixon's presidency...
...opening statements neutral, most revealed their position on impeachment right off, and at first there were few surprises. Wisconsin's Democrat Robert Kastenmeier contended that "President Nixon's conduct in office is a case history of the abuse of presidential power." New York Democrat Elizabeth Holtzman detected "a seamless web of misconduct so serious that it leaves me shaken." Texan Brooks claimed that the committee
...Imbalances in national power and purpose, the wonder is that the sea conference is be ing held at all. But the major powers know that the days when they could partition territory among themselves (as they did last century in Africa) are gone; they are too entangled in a web of eco nomic and political agree ments for that, and too dependent on developing nations for raw materials...