Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outwit Majority Leader Byrd, who is considered to be one of the chamber's most skillful parliamentarians. To head off their filibuster, he scheduled a cloture vote for Monday, Sept. 26. (Under Senate rules, this would limit debate on the subject to one hour for each Senator and bar any new amendments.) But Abourezk spotted a loophole in Byrd's strategy: old amendments could still be called up for action. So Partner Metzenbaum put his staff to work all weekend writing 508 amendments, mostly technical, which he filed only hours before the Senators voted...
Freddie Laker, who had arrived from London Monday evening, kept us entertained after we were bused to the airport. Beer in hand, he jumped on a bar at the United Air Lines terminal (where Laker passengers departed) and bubbled, "We've got an important job to do-go flying." The crowd broke into For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. He shot off barbs at IATA. Said he: "The next time IATA starts to rip off customers, they will be very wary and say, 'Watch out. There may be another Freddie Laker.' " Finally, just before midnight...
...will kill our business," adds Jim Carlucci, owner of Frank's Party Shop in a Struthers shopping center. In Campbell and Struthers, dismal little taverns near the mill gates were filled with workers morosely drinking up one last time. Most were quiet, but in Shirley's Bar in Struthers, eight angry steelworkers yelled, "We want jobs, not jackets!" They had received coupons entitling them to free jackets for helping set production records on open-hearth furnaces a day before they got their notices of permanent layoff. City officials are worried about how they can possibly replace tax revenues...
...society at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pa. Hale, 58, decided to try to find out why so many people prefer to be unchurched. Doing so he logged 30,000 miles by air, auto, foot and boat, even visiting almost inaccessible "hollers" in West Virginia and a topless bar near Sarasota, Fla. He lived for a month in each of six counties ranked by Glenmary as among the country's most irreligious.* Though social conformity makes church shunners tend to keep their views to themselves, Hale located 165 of them for intensive interviews...
...clothes and manners of Sunday-best services. Recalls an Oregon housewife: "I kind of felt put down." Some blacks sense white prejudice. And then there are those whose lives became linked with unacceptable behavior: a woman lately married to a drunkard, a homosexual, a topless waitress in a Florida bar...