Word: birching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carswell has been defeated and the Honorable Birch Bayh emerges victorious in his fight against mediocrity and racism...
...meantime, it is the Florida Democrats who are in the worst bind. They supported Carswell's Supreme Court nomination avidly; now they must oppose him. In a telegram to Indiana's Senator Birch Bayh, a leader of the Carswell opposition, Florida Democratic Chairman Pat Thomas reflected their dilemma: "Thanks a lot," said Thomas. "It only hurts when I laugh...
...theory, the direct-election scheme-titled the Bayh amendment after its chief sponsor, Indiana's Senator Birch Bayh-is simplicity itself. The Electoral College would be abolished and the candidate who received the most votes would be the President. If no one got more than 40%-a situation that has happened only once in U.S. history*-there would be a runoff between the two who ranked highest. Majority will would always prevail, and a Wallace-like spoiler could no longer threaten to disrupt the system. In practice, however, things might not prove to be quite so simple...
...workers, the cameras flashed back and forth from his face to huge portraits of Lenin hanging in the hall. As sustained applause greeted the very mention of his name, the TV screens showed Brezhnev embracing officials, kissing women factory workers, acknowledging the cheers of the crowd, and planting a birch tree at the dedication of a new shrine at Lenin's birthplace in Ulyanovsk. Brezhnev also filled the front pages of Soviet newspapers. Even after Kosygin and Podgorny reappeared, the party boss continued to hog the headlines and prime TV time...
...John W. Birch, director of Aviation at Logan, walkel to the TWA ticket counter and began speaking over a megaphone. When demonstrators started coughing so that he could notbe heard, he handed the megaphone to Robert T. Berger of the State Police...