Word: witch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should have read: "Will the U.S. Survive the Witch Hunt...
...Watergate hearings has carried far beyond a mere matter in which "others wallow," while Nixon blithely ignores it. The combat over custody of the tapes?even if they are inconclusive?is not some quaint, theoretical argument between two contesting branches of Government. Nor is it a political witch hunt. The dispute carries great portents for basic concepts of justice, for public confidence in the Government and, most personally, for Richard Nixon. If ever recorded conversations were, indeed, of historical significance, the President's tapes are profoundly so?and long before their appointed time...
...quite legitimately placed his characters in the time of James I. In choosing a tale from Scottish history, Shakespeare was paying tribute to King James, himself a Scotsman; and in giving such a major role to the supernatural, he was honoring not only a king deeply interested in witch-craft but one who had himself recently written a treatise entitled Daemonologie...
...whirl in Iris Murdoch's latest witch dance, one of her characters stammers: "I didn't know ordinary educated middle-class English people could behave the way we behaved...
...years to draft a new code, he suspended all existing laws and authorized the people's committees to proceed on an ad hoc basis, governed only by "the full precepts of justice, the commandments of Islam and the interests of the people." The committees have gone on a witch-hunting, book-burning binge, aimed at restoring Libya to Islamic purity...