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[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 103: [Nixon] now held real power over the Joint Chiefs [...] [Admiral] Moorer specifically would owe him big-time.
at big-time, adv.
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 97: Days later, a column by Evans and Novak aired the long-building dirty laundry between Sullivan and Hoover.
at dirty laundry (n.) under dirty, adj.
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 387: Woodward had no sense of the internal drama that had gone down at the FBI .
at go down, v.
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 154: After flunking his test assignment with Martha, Baldwin was quickly reassigned by McCord.
at flunk, v.
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate XX: [A] broader umbrella of nearly a dozen other distinct but related scandals: the Chennault Affair, the Huston Plan, [...] campaign ‘rat fucking’.
at rat fucking, n.
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 649: ‘Let them impeach me [...] We’ll fight it out to the end.’ Nixon would grit it out .
at grit (it) out (v.) under grit, n.1
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 624: Hearing the news aboard Air Force One, Nixon groused.
at grouse, v.1
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 598: The requested tapes represented ‘inadmissible hearsay,’ since Nixon himself wasn’t a member of the Watergate conspiracy. The argument was a clear Hail Mary pass .
at Hail Mary, adj.
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 199: [T]he chief of staff explained that it wouldn’t be easy to hang the burglars out to dry entirely.
at hang someone out to dry (v.) under hang, v.2
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 130: [T]he well-respected and hard-nosed Richard McLaren.
at hard-nosed, adj.
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 296: [Tip O’Neill] had witnessed plenty of hardball politics and thought he knew the world of dirty tricks inside and out .
at hardball, adj.
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 141: Rebozo had made himself into a wealthy [...] real estate investor through strong hustle amid the booming postwar Florida real estate market.
at hustle, n.
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 233: The Nixon team was secretive and iced him out even before the Times imbroglio over the Pentagon Papers, leaving him to get scrappy to find information.
at ice, v.
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 56: A big part of Kalmbach’s role was safeguarding the Nixon campaign’s cash kitty.
at kitty, n.1
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate XXX: Nixon drank too much and couldn’t hold his alcohol [...] just a drink or two could make him loopy.
at loopy, adj.
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 123: Magruder had sought [...] ways to mess with Muskie and his fellow Democratic candidates.
at mess with, v.
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 199: Ehrlichman seemed to perk up when he heard the former attorney general was involved.
at perk up, v.
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 118: At dinner in California with a woman he hoped to recruit as a potential plant in the Democratic campaign [etc].
at plant, n.
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 146: Kalmbach [...] leaned hard on deep pockets, crisscrossing the country to meet informally with corporate leaders and influential Republicans.
at deep pockets (n.) under pocket, n.
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 238: Magruder got roaring drunk at Billy Martin’s tavern.
at roaring, adv.
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 233: The Nixon team was secretive and iced him out even before the Times imbroglio over the Pentagon Papers, leaving him to get scrappy to find information.
at scrappy, adj.
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 250: [S]tarting his own practice in 1934, scrounging moderate success and living almost hand to mouth.
at scrounge, n.
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 288: Nixon had promised that he would make the [Washington] Post pay for its meddling, and after the election, he began the squeeze.
at squeeze, n.1
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 626: Rodino walked out, leaving a red-faced Doar stewing.
at stew, v.1
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 321: Felt believed he stood a good chance of taking over the bureau if Gray’s nomination tanked .
at tank, v.1
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 90: [A] staffer from the CIA’s Technical Services Division [...] The tech went by the pseudonym ‘Steve’.
at tech, n.
[US] G.M. Graff Watergate 662: He’d dined earlier [...] at D.C.’s tony Sans Souci.
at tony, adj.
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