Word: bigwig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there, the subjugation of the whole green globe, in one paragraph between the strangling of a sentry and the showdown with a martian bigwig. The Foundation Trilogy tells nine hundred years of galactic "history" in about as many pages...
...also for New Left militants, Communists and even a few liberal Protestants. Last summer near the town of Dungannon, a 29-year-old opposition M.P. named Austin Currie staged a sit-in to protest the assignment of a family flat to the unmarried teenage secretary of a Unionist bigwig. The protest quickly spread to Londonderry, where a system of blatant gerrymandering has resulted in the two-thirds Catholic majority's getting only one-third of the public-built housing; it eventually turned into a nationwide campaign for reapportionment and for the "one-man, one-vote" principle...
...ninth anniversary of Egypt's little Suez war with France, Britain and Israel. After parade's end, the crowd waited expectantly to hear whether President Gamal Abdel Nasser could top his performance of a year ago, when he pounded the lectern for the benefit of visiting Soviet Bigwig Aleksandr Shelepin and told the U.S. to go "drink the sea"-the Arab equivalent of "Go jump in the lake...
...center of the snowball was Howard J. (Howie) Phillips '62, president of the then extant Student Council, a 32-member version of the present 24-man HCUA. Phillips was the epitome of the student politician. Besides his post in the Student Council, he was a bigwig in the Harvard Young Republicans, college chairman of the Massachusetts Young Republicans, a founder of the Young Americans for Freedom, and head of the Youth for Nixon-Lodge in Massachusetts for the 1960 campaign. Several months before, Phillips had spoken at the fifth anniversary dinner of the National Review. One CRIMSON article...
...Bigwig Captain. But she has shown a gift for playing on all kinds of grievances, legitimate and otherwise. She decries Pakistan's poverty, particularly in the remote eastern half of the country, which has long felt bitterly that it is being neglected by the government. She harps on corruption, and especially on the swift advancement of Ayub Khan's eldest son, Gauhar, who resigned his army captaincy to become a bigwig in Ghandara Industries, which took over a General Motors assembly plant after the U.S. owners sold out for a million dollars. Above all, she keeps accusing Ayub...