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...assignment that came along. When he was elected president of the construction trades council in 1957, he turned a no-show job into a powerful one, mediating disputes among the fractious New York locals. At the end of tough, bruising squabbles, exasperated union bosses would turn to Brennan. "Awright Pete," one would say. "Whaddya want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Four New Men in Nixon's Second Cabinet | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

...down his long nose, droning in a voice that sounds like a cross between a buzz saw and Bronx sneer. "Did you take a dive in the Clay fight?" he demands of Son ny Listen. Or as Muhammad Ali launches into his pitch for Muslimism, Cosell cuts in sharply: "Awright, we've been through that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sportscasting: The Grandiose Inquisitor | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

...there was the inevitable round of tasteless gossip and sick jokes. "Do you know what Smith said to Rusk at the altar?" runs one gibe. " 'Awright, now stand down, honkey!'" In New York, Black Power Agitator Lincoln Lynch denounced Rusk as a "subconscious racist" and added, only half in jest: "I wonder to what lengths Dean Rusk has to go in order to gain support for his and Johnson's war in Viet Nam." Studs Terkel, a Chicago writer and radio commentator, had nothing against the wedding, but as an Administration detractor could not resist a crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: A Marriage of Enlightenment | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

...Awright, sports fans, come and see the biggest little bi-weekly in Cambridge, the Harvard Summer News, and have a free beer and/or coke. That's right, you heard me right, free beer and/or coke available tonight and Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at The Harvard Crimson, 14 Plympton St. So if you're interested in writing, reporting, reviewing, selling ads and/or if you're just a pretty girl, please come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Sets Happening For Would-be Writers | 7/3/1967 | See Source »

Marcie: So awright, Sophie, 10-4; I'm in the driveway of the house; I'll go 10-7-now. and go in the house and give you a land line [telephone call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: What Citizens Have Wrought | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

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