Word: lawlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William F. Lawless, Maguire's director of the Massport feasibility study, explained that his firm's report made no community environmental conclusions because it expected a separate environmental impact study to be conducted on the site...
...York Times editorial writers, the Harvard occupiers were "lawless students" who sought "not to reform but to destroy." The rifling of administrators' files was especially condemned...
...Cain, the line between the law and the lawless had always been fuzzy. Born in a tough neighborhood not far from where he died, the street-wise Cain left school after eighth grade, but did a good job of self-education. He learned five languages, mastered many of the techniques of eavesdropping and once studied law books for several months. When he later faced conspiracy and other charges, he creditably defended himself in court. Handsome and spectacled, Cain was polite, well read and intelligent. At the same time, he had a hedonist's love of flashy clothes...
Resentment of the President's inconsistencies is now deep in the American soul. Nixon preached law-and-order but presided over a lawless administration. While he was cutting programs of education and health and urging personal spending restraint on everyone else, his private homes were being voluptuously appointed at taxpayers' expense. His calls for all Americans to carry the national commitments were still ringing when it was learned Nixon had used gimmicks to reduce his taxes to a pittance. And even as he belatedly began to recognize the seriousness of the energy crisis, he roared round the country...
...President the U.S. ever had. You probably never thought you would write an editorial. Yet Nixon, by his actions, has finally "brought us together." Congratulations on your acceptance of a thankless yet vital task: speaking out in defense of basic American principles of government by law, not by the lawless...