Word: plethora
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although unreeled in flat, dry phrases, the findings of fact by the tapes panel, and the testimony that followed, furnished a plethora of tantalizing clues with which much of the nation could join a grim whodunit game of mystery solving. After all Nixon's professions of innocence, his multiple promises of full disclosure, his vows to "get at the truth," someone terribly close to the Oval Office was still destroying evidence, obstructing justice and lying about the crime...
Alarming Tips. In pursuing this plethora of leads, Cox's staff had subpoenaed masses of bank records and deployed several dozen accountants from the IRS and the FBI to examine them. Members of the special prosecuting team suspect that the White House received tips from one of the federal agencies and became alarmed at the burgeoning scope of Cox's investigation. In addition, Administration officials may have disliked Cox's success in persuading former presidential aides-so far John Dean, Jeb Magruder and Fred LaRue-to agree to testify for the prosecution in return for leniency...
...school committee races the effects of slate voting will be stronger. There is always a plethora of candidates for the seven available positions (over 20 in 1971), but three stand out both for their views and their community support: Timothy Callahan, Eric Davin and Mary Ellen Preusser. (Republican Koocher is the only "young Agnew" who might take one of the seats--he has $7000 to spend on his campaign, an outrageous sum in the school race, only justified because he sees it as a stepping-stone to bigger things...
...protester of the '60s, I feel that the plethora of Watergate evils disclosed so far and the admission of secret bombing in Cambodia have only confirmed that the youthful skeptics were accurate. With so much fuel for the fire, why have the protests ended? The answer is easy. You can bang your head against the wall only so long before it begins to hurt. I hope the pain will end soon, so that we can start putting our young and old heads together and bang anew...
Pasta lovers will not find a plethora of Italian restaurants in the Square area, and the best spot--Natalie's--is near Radcliffe. Although the spaghetti is superior, the best item on the menu is a $3 antipasto salad which is almost a meal in itself. The Caesar dressing adds just the right tang...