Word: backroom
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...always very tense before a show starts -- for the performers, doubts about another road-audience, for the crowd, the tightness of anticipation. Preparations continue in the last minutes on amps and mikes and lights. In a blue-carpeted backroom deep within the Boston Tea Party, the Jeff Beck Group kicks around a squishy soccer ball...
...deliver a paean to social workers. Similarly, when he discussed the war, Humphrey followed a militant line to the effect that "the U.S. should fulfill its commitments" with a sentiment more congenial to doves: "We have tried to do maybe too much in the world." Treading gingerly but using backroom muscle on all factions of the party, Humphrey will hold meetings, inviting Democrats of all persuasions to help shape the platform. To counter charges that he was stacking the convention, the Vice President's forces agreed to cede some delegates to McCarthy - provided that their loss involved no danger...
...hunting, fishing, poker and pungent Mexican cigars, loved his sour-mash bourbon and glorified convivial nipping as "striking a blow for liberty." Many a blow was struck with congressional leaders of both parties and with his protégés, Sam Rayburn and Wilbur Mills. In those backroom meetings of what he called the "Board of Education," Garner usually got his way, and Rayburn continued them as Speaker. Above all, Cactus Jack kept his word, which he characteristically called "staying hitched...
...conference ended four days late as major splits developed in the backroom ideological bickering. Traditional Communist Party delegations balked at resolutions denouncing the Venezuelan Communists, who have now agreed to run candidates for election; denouncing "some socialist states"--read Russia--for offering financial aid to Brazil and Colombia; pronouncing the armed struggle as the only road to liberation...
...into Boston after a big night at Harvard. He played at one of the city's most elite establishments, and lost $1800. He returned the next night and cleared $2300. "That takes a great deal of guts," an admirer said, "but after all, he did grow up in the backroom of a Harlem gambling joint...