> as lemmas

1975 Wall St. Jrnl. 24 Apr. 1/6 (heading) Motorgate: how a floating corpse led to a fraud inquiry and ousters by GM.

1977 N.Y. Times Mag. 16 Oct. 38/1 Lancegate is no Watergate... The Carter men had hardly a month to plan..a downplaying of Bert Lance's problems.

1978 Time 6 Mar. 21/2 Many friends of Flood's will probably be touched by the investigation, which is already becoming known as ‘Floodgate’.

1978 Observer 10 Dec. 5/1 The South African Government easily defeated..an attempt..to force its resignation over ‘Muldergate’—the Information Department scandal.

1979 Observer 29 July 4/1 ‘Totegate’..centres on the Tote's practice of collecting off-course bets and sending them for inclusion..at the racecourse up to five minutes after the result of the race is known.

1980 Newsweek 18 Aug. 81/1 The unfolding tale of Billy Carter and his Libyan connection—an affair that many big-city dailies still call ‘Billygate’.

1983 Tuscaloosa (Alabama) News 11 July 4/2 It seems to me absurd—on the basis of what we know now—to equate ‘Cartergate’ with ‘Watergate’.

1986 Marxism Today Sept. 41/3 The current deterioration of the Ulster environment will continue unabated..if future developments significantly touch the RUC (‘Stalkergate’) or the judiciary.