Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There were just enough unexpected angles and lines in his face, including a slightly crooked grin, to rescue it from mediocrity. Thanks to a pair of glasses, he looked more owlish than his earlier, boyish pictures had suggested. With impressive poise and a masterly memory, Dean spun his detailed web of evidence. He readily admitted his own illegal and improper acts. But he emerged unshaken from five full days of recital and crossexamination, with his basic story challenged but intact...
Colonel Vo Toan, the district commander, described what he calls the "spider-web" tactics employed at Ta Lung: "We make sure the enemy doesn't venture too far. He is the butterfly and we are the spider. If he enters our web, we close in behind...
Unravelling the tangled web of Watergate will require all the energy that Cox can muster. He expects the investigation to take at least a year or more and points out that the inquiry into Teapot Dome consumed six years of study...
...after a web of plots and counterplots, the mission fails, and Annalise decides to go home again and keep her mouth shut about her wicked stepfather. "God damn you!" cries Thorpe, who is facing a murder charge on her account. Everybody loses, concludes Hunt, "except Klaus Werber, who was, as the saying went, home free...
Cook emerged clearly distressed, and on Wednesday called a press conference to announce his resignation. Still protesting innocence, he said he had been caught in a "web of circumstance" that had impaired his credibility and thus...