Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kirk said American wire services were "incorrect" in reporting that the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission is not actively monitoring the French test...
...said yesterday that he believes the most important element was the lack of grounds for the accusations. He also speculated that the Department was uncomfortable about the charges of wire-tapping that Oliphant's lawyer brought forward...
...list was long: conspiracy to obstruct justice, conspiracy to intercept wire or oral communications, subornation of perjury, conspiracy to obstruct a criminal investigation, conspiracy to destroy evidence, conspiracy to file false sworn statements, conspiracy to commit breaking and entering, conspiracy to commit burglary, misprision of a felony, filing of false sworn statements, perjury, breaking and entering, burglary, interception of wire and oral communications, obstruction of criminal investigation, attempted interference with administration of the Internal Revenue laws, and attempted unauthorized use of Internal Revenue information...
...clowning around onstage, and he now wishes people would not remind him of that phase of his career. One of his antics used to be giving his small Hammond electric organ a push and then chasing it across the stage. One night he tripped over a wire and-lying helpless on the floor -watched the instrument plunge off the apron of the stage and go up in smoke...
...sporadic danger of having leisure thrust upon it, the poor old middleclass, middle-aged man is a creature of work. He is his work and is so acknowledged by those he meets at cocktail parties: "Ah, you're a fiction editor," or "Ah, you're a wire man for the White House." If the workadaddy (Tom Wolfe's useful word) capriciously retires, most of his is-ness leaks away...