Word: albatross
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...election. He had to make a strong and striking appeal to mobilize what you could call 'movement' political forces, rather than establishment ones. He had to make strong commitments, moral commitments in order to win their allegiance. Then when confronted with the election, he had an albatross around his neck...
...there have been those who've felt he did not say enough or shuffled when he should have pranced proud, there were those then, in the intense hush of the early Fifties, who felt that Robinson had taken to talking too much and wearing a brittle pride like an albatross across his shoulders...
...transatlantic sailboat race. But Globe Girdler Sir Francis Chichester sailed off anyway, was reported missing for several days, and became the object of extensive air and sea searches before he was located and helped back to port. Stung by continuing criticism, the aging mariner has now clearly identified his albatross-cancer of the spine-and attempted to justify his entry in the race...
They are not yet taking out ads, but some airline executives are earnestly trying to get rid of a number of their jumbo jets. In an industry that is just beginning to turn the corner to profitability, the big bird has become something of an albatross...
BRADSHAW: The U.S. operates with a huge albatross around its neck, and that is the albatross of its traditions. They are the traditions that brought about our antitrust laws and created the private enterprise system and made it anathema for anyone around this table to talk about the benefits of a corporate state. But that is what Japan is today. I would hope that we will consider today what it means to have national goals with industry and government working hand in hand toward those goals. Look at my industry, oil. I have been struggling to get a national energy...