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Stonewall 345: ‘Boy,’ said the crusty Wilson to Mitchell’s lawyer, William Hundley, ‘let me tear the ass off that kid Dean first’.at tear someone’s ass(hole), v.
Stonewall 345: ‘Boy,’ said the crusty Wilson to Mitchell’s lawyer, William Hundley, ‘let me tear the ass off that kid Dean first’. Stonewall 95: Dean was thirty-one years old in July 1970 when he became counsel to the President of the United States. He was a comer.at comer, n.
Stonewall 362: [T]he savvy cop sat the President’s lawyer down for a Dutch uncle’s talk.at Dutch uncle, n.
Stonewall 155: [E]ither he had euchered [sic] us, the Congress and the American public in a daring gamble or he was merely buying time.at euchre, v.
Stonewall 334: [Some prosecutors] simply confuse quantity with quality—failing to accord juries their due in being able to discriminate—and throw in the kitchen sink.at everything but the kitchen sink (n.) under everything, n.
Stonewall 107: Dean was too deeply involved, too culpable, too big a fish, to get a ‘free ride’—total immunity from prosecution.at free ride (n.) under free, adj.
Stonewall 275: Haig had accused us of manipulating the grand jury [...] ‘Well, I went right into him then,’ Jaworski told us.at go into (v.) under go, v.
Stonewall 197: For the greatest gut fight of his career, President Nixon made the mistake of choosing as an opponent a first-class gut-fighter. It was a decision he came to regret.at gut-fight (n.) under gut, n.
Stonewall 105: Dean was finally going the ‘hang-out route’.at hang out, v.1
Stonewall 302: Here was something a prosecutor might hang his hat on.at hang one’s hat (v.) under hang, v.2
Stonewall 166: Bennett confessed he had not wanted to get involved with Woods’s problem. He had told her to do her best and then jackrabbited out of her office.at jackrabbit, v.
Stonewall 48: We were sympathetic to the fact that [the Cubans] were the low men on the totem pole. They had been used by more powerful figures in this drama.at low (man) on the totem pole (n.) under low, adj.
Stonewall 90: Only a few people could tell us anything about Nixon’s role in the cover-up. Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Mitchell could be written off.at write off, v.
Stonewall 342: Dean [...] was probably one of the best-prepared witnesses ever to come down the pike.at come down the pike (v.) under pike, n.2
Stonewall 364: One of the greatest concerns [...] had been to develop a cover story to explain their understanding of the hush-money payments—which Ehrlichman acknowledged were intended to keep the burglars ‘on the reservation’.at on the reservation (adj.) under reservation, n.
Stonewall 259: Faced with a potential defendant who has engaged in a variety of criminal activities, the prosecutor usually ‘takes his best shot.’ The strongest evidence we had was evidence of the cover-up; that was our best shot.at take one’s best shot (v.) under shot, n.1
Stonewall 342: [T]abbing him as a Washington trial lawyer.at tab, v.1
Stonewall 193: [Special Prosecutor Leon] Jaworski gone to the wall for the integrity of our investigations, he had won.at go to the wall (v.) under wall, n.
Stonewall 217: [I]f any evidence incriminating the President turned up, Petersen would ‘waltz it right over’ to the House of Representatives.at waltz, v.
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