Word: backrooms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...HANDWRITING IS ON THE WALL NOW, AND MASSACHUSETTS WROTE IT IN BIG LETTERS FOR ALL THE BACKROOM BOYS TO READ AT THE CONVENTION. IF THEY FAIL TO READ IT AND SPIKE IKE, NO AMOUNT OF SOPHISTRY AND HAIR-SPLITTING OR TALK ABOUT PLATFORMS AND POLICIES WILL ERASE THE FACT THAT THE MAJORITY HAVE SPOKEN LOUDLY AND WITH...
HEARTWARMING FAITH IN A MAN WHO HASN'T EVEN CAMPAIGNED YET BECAUSE OF HIS INTEGRITY. LET'S HOPE THE BACKROOM BOYS WILL LOOK UP THE WORD DESTINY IN THE DICTIONARY...
...matter how emphatically Governor Adlai Stevenson says no, many Democratic politicians refuse to believe he isn't saying maybe. With this uncertainty, the Illinois Democratic convention opened last week. After some backroom maneuvering and telephone conferences with the Governor (who was out West making some campaignlike sounds), the convention brought forth a resolution supporting Stevenson for President-if he runs. Then the convention elected 20 delegates-at-large, each with half a vote. (Fifty other delegates, each with one vote, were elected at the Illinois primary last month...
...Backroom Boy. It was Bevan at his crudest-but this time he got an answer. From an unnoticed back bench on the Tory side of the House came the clear, ringing challenge of a bright-eyed newcomer. He was studious Iain Macleod, 38, a Tory "backroom boy." Macleod startled the House with his opening remarks: "I want to deal closely and with relish with the vulgar, crude and intemperate speech to which the House of Commons has just listened." Then slowly, piece by piece, quoting Labor's own statements, he demolished Bevan's rhetoric. When Bevan...
Strapping Hasan Hakim, 65, wears the tarboosh of an Arab bourgeois but no man's collar. Between the two world wars he plied his profession as a financial expert all through the Middle East-in Jordan, Palestine, Syria-and won little popularity or following because of the backroom nature of his job and because of his blunt frankness. But he is regarded as an honest man, a mark of true distinction in Middle East politics...