Word: agnew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-ABM forces together behind Mrs. Smith's new amendment. They did just that, but it was not enough. Even with Mrs. Smith, they had only 50 votes, one shy of the majority needed to carry an amendment. Although the amendment was already defeated, Vice President Spiro Agnew added his vote to make the result 50-51. Far easier passage of Safeguard is expected in the House...
Eakins came to his insight the hard way-through his own dashed hopes and disillusionments. His distinguished teaching career at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts had ended abruptly when he insisted on the need for students to draw from nude models. His great medical pictures, The Agnew Clinic and The Gross Clinic-which would serve as touchstones for a later generation of realists-had been greeted with critical jeers. He rarely sold a painting, subsisting on a small private income. The year before he met the clerics, his father had died. Eakins himself was an agnostic...
...reason for the Administration's near loss was its own legislative brinkmanship. Vice President Spiro Agnew rejected Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen's argument that the Democratic offer of a five-month extension was the best the Administration was likely to get. Agnew telephoned President Nixon in Thailand, won his approval for an attempt to force a vote on the surtax. Agnew then threw down the challenge to the Democrats and demanded that Congress pass nothing less than a full year's extension...
...friends, and has to be taught lines by his wife. Junior Samples, the fat man (275 Ibs.), professed to have nothing to wear but his "Sunday overalls" at a CBS celebration party. Introduced to a key network executive-"Junior, this is the vice president"-Junior ingenuously responded: "Hello, Mr. Agnew...
Romney, who has seen his ten-year program to build 26 million houses mired in budget shortages, argues that "we should revise and reverse our priorities." But he does not deny Agnew's man-on-Mars proposal a place among them. To do so would be to subscribe to the notion that "if you've seen one celestial body, you've seen them...