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Watergate   /wˈɔtərgˌeɪt/  /wˈɑtərgˌeɪt/   Listen
Watergate

noun
1.
A political scandal involving abuse of power and bribery and obstruction of justice; led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974.  Synonym: Watergate scandal.





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"Watergate" Quotes from Famous Books



... stood. Then it passed along Murivance, where the only existing tower is to be seen, and so along the still remaining portion of the wall to English Bridge, where it turned up the hill at the back of what is now Dogpole, and passing the Watergate, again joined the fortifications of the castle.[9] The castle itself was reconstructed by Prince Edward, the son of Henry III, at the end of the thirteenth century, and is of the Edwardian type of concentric castle. The Norman keep was incorporated ...
— Vanishing England • P. H. Ditchfield
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... she had done with him. Then it began to leak out that Elizabeth was sending her commands to the bishops direct instead of through their Metropolitan; and, as the days went by, it became more and more evident that disgrace was beginning to shadow Lambeth. The barges that drew up at the watergate were fewer as summer went on, and the long tables in hall were more and more deserted; even the Archbishop himself seemed silent and cast down. Anthony used to watch him from his window going up and down the little walled garden that looked ...
— By What Authority? • Robert Hugh Benson
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