Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nobody crosses Golda," a former aide once said. She never forgot a slight. Yet she was willing to listen to almost anybody who asked for an audience, even though her listening could be a form of stonewalling. At the end, the coffee cups empty, the ashtrays full, the air staled in the close room, Golda would show her interlocutors into the thin dawn light-red-eyed, hoarse, exasperated, exhausted, knowing themselves defeated by the unshakable conviction of this indomitable woman. "It is like arguing before a judge," said one participant. "When she makes a decision, it's made...
...rely increasingly on an inflation-fueling, energy-wasting gasoline that federal price controls and environmental regulations are discouraging the oil industry from producing. If the nation wants to continue its growing use of unleaded gas, Washington must permit the companies a reasonable profit from making and selling it. Air pollution regulations for industry must also be relaxed enough to allow oil companies to build the additional refineries that are needed to do the job. If Congress and the Administration feel that doing that is asking too much, auto emission standards themselves will have to be eased substantially. Indeed, the only...
...first-half buzzer, Mark Harris converted an Allen air-ball, drawing a foul in the process. Successfully completing the three-point play after both teams had retreated to the lockers, Harris lengthened the Crimson margin to seven...
Hall and Rohr bought a three-week unlimited mileage ticket on Eastern Air Lines, and jetted across the country to promote their product...
...tallest and most triumphantly masculine, may in a second topple into the waves and be lost forever. All we miss is the Esther Williams schtick; what we get is Antony and Cleopatra shouting at each other from across the pool, their passions mingling in the sea-air, their bodies metaphorically pulled under by the whimsical undertow of Fortune; Cleopatra viciously dunking the poor schlemiel who swims out with the news of Antony's political marriage to Caesar's sister Octavia; Antony, Caesar, and Pompey carousing drunkenly on the eve of their battle, chucking each other off the raft with merry...