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All the President’s Men choose

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[US] J. Mitchell to Carl Bernstein 31 May in Bernstein & Woodward All the President’s Men (1974) 105: All that crap, you’re putting it in the paper? It’s all been denied. Katie Graham’s gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer if that’s published.
at have one’s tit in a wringer (v.) under tit, n.2
[US] Bernstein & Woodward All the President’s Men 110: Bernstein and Woodward had been aced out. [Their rivals’] story was a major break.
at ace out (v.) under ace, v.
[US] Bernstein & Woodward All the President’s Men 29: [O]ne of these twenty-five-cent generals hanging around the committee.
at twenty-five cent, adj.
[US] Bernstein & Woodward All the President’s Men 298: [H]e’s got to convince everybody—the prosecutors, the press and Senator Sam’s people on the Hill—that he’s telling the truth. Otherwise the White House will cut his balls off .
at cut someone’s balls off (v.) under cut, v.2
[US] Bernstein & Woodward All the President’s Men 300: Martha yells at him all day long that he ought to take every damn one of them down, including Nixon.
at take down, v.
[US] Bernstein & Woodward All the President’s Men 126: The Trojans called their brand of electioneering ‘ratfucking.’ Ballot boxes were stuffed, spies were planted in the opposition camp, and bogus campaign literature abounded.
at rat fucking, n.
[US] Bernstein & Woodward All the President’s Men 292: ‘He [...] tucked it to [White House counsel John] Dean and [former Attorney General John] Mitchell. [...] Woodward asked what Magruder had pinned on Dean and Mitchell. ‘The whole mess,’.
at tuck it to, v.
[US] Bernstein & Woodward All the President’s Men 274: [H]e raced around the office, pounding Rosenfeld on the shoulder [and] attempting to exchange a jive handshake with Sussman.
at jive handshake (n.) under jive, adj.
[US] Bernstein & Woodward All the President’s Men 279: [T]he President was going to have to jump ship on the Watergate at some point soon.
at jump ship (v.) under jump, v.
[US] Bernstein & Woodward All the President’s Men 2365: Rietz had headed a ‘Kiddie Corps’ of young spies for the President.
at kiddie corps (n.) under kiddy, adj.
[US] Bernstein & Woodward All the President’s Men 54: ‘It’s called ‘laundering,’’ Dardis began. ‘You set up a money chain that makes it impossible to trace the source. The Mafia does it all the time’.
at launder, v.
[US] Bernstein & Woodward All the President’s Men 300: ‘He hits the sauce every once in a while, but nothing serious. He’s still got his marbles’ .
at marbles, n.4
[US] Bernstein & Woodward All the President’s Men 300: ‘He’s resigned to the likelihood that he’s going to jail. [...] He hits the sauce every once in a while, but nothing serious’ .
at hit the sauce (v.) under sauce, n.1
[US] Bernstein & Woodward All the President’s Men 170: Both had been members of the ‘Beaver Patrol,’ composed of bright, fiercely loyal young men brought to the White House from the advertising and marketing worlds.
at beaver patrol, n.2
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