Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some time this week, the Senate Watergate committee also intends to deliver to the same court its suit demanding that Nixon turn over tapes and other documents relevant to Watergate. Unlike Cox, the committee faces the possibility that the courts may duck its dispute with the President. Indeed, one leading professor of constitutional law, Yale's Alexander M. Bickel, considered the proposition so dicey that he recommended that the committee seek legislation giving the courts jurisdiction in the case. Ervin rejected this course, however, because it would be time-consuming and, as one committee staffer put it, "tantamount...
...court is less likely to be able to duck any conflict resulting from a criminal case or a criminal investigation, such as that of Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox. There, a denied request for documents would not be a squabble between the two other governmental branches; criminal matters are an area of direct judicial concern. Though Cox originally announced that he had been assured full White House cooperation, there has in fact been foot-dragging on many requests. Cox has already filed a written request for the Nixon tapes, and, should Nixon eventually ignore a grand jury subpoena in that...
Woodside explained that much of Cambodian history has been a continual effort to fend off Thai encroachments from the west and Vietnamese advances from the east. "Historically, any Cambodian politician who received Vietnamese aid would eventually be a dead duck in Cambodian politics," he said...
...Bonn summit, he has a Mercedes 450, and his Kremlin garage also holds a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. He has a splendid dacha in Zavidova, 70 miles away from Moscow, equipped with swimming pool and sauna, high-speed boats for dashing along the Volga, and a vast duck and boar-hunting preserve...
Once I told them that we were eating duck. Because they have so little food they didn't believe me. So I held up a duck by its neck so they could see that we really did have some...