| 单词 | watergate era |
| 释义 | > as lemmasWatergate era 1. attributive. Of or relating to the U.S. political scandal in which people connected with President R. M. Nixon’s Republican administration were caught breaking into, and attempting to bug, the national headquarters of the Democratic Party (in the Watergate building in Washington, D.C.) during the 1972 presidential election campaign, and which eventually led to President Nixon's resignation in 1974. Esp. in Watergate scandal, Watergate era, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > discreditable political activity > [noun] > specific conspiracy Watergate1972 Watergate scandal1972 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > [noun] > a scandal or infamous event or state of things > specific Watergate1972 Watergate scandal1972 1972 Washington Post 6 Aug. b6/1 Such potentially explosive issues as the Watergate scandal go by almost unremarked. 1974 Newsweek 11 May 23/2 The President himself..served notice that he would stonewall any further demands for tapes in the Watergate scandal. 1989 T. Clancy Clear & Present Danger xxv. 549 A little-known result of the Watergate case. Martinez and Barker were Watergate conspirators, right? 2009 New Yorker 22 June 53/2 The country is in a period similar to the Watergate era, when a series of disturbing state secrets..spilled out. < as lemmas |
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