Word: brainchild
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...have never claimed that the California Bilateral Nuclear Weapons Freeze Initiative was my "brainchild." The genealogy of "an idea whose time has come" can get murky, but in this particular case, legitimate claims to parenthood should include the voters from western Massachusetts, who passed a resolution resembling ours, along with a number of my fellow Californians...
...which would require the state's Governor, reflecting the will of the people, to advise the President that he should propose to the Soviet Union an immediate halt to the "testing, production and further deployment of nuclear weapons ... in a way that can be verified by both sides." The brainchild of Liberal Activist Harold Willens, board chairman of the Los Angeles-based Factory Equipment Corp., the initiative has been endorsed by Governor Jerry Brown. Backers have gathered more than 600,000 signatures, nearly twice as many as are necessary to have the initiative placed on the November ballot. "We feel...
...resolution was the brainchild of Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, who returned to Washington after the holiday recess last January deeply impressed with the burgeoning grass-roots movement against nuclear arms. Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon agreed to join him as sponsor, and the two lawmakers spent several weeks lining up other supporters. The single-page resolution calls upon both Washington and Moscow to "pursue a complete halt to the nuclear arms race," asks for a bilateral ban on the "testing, production, and further deployment of nuclear warheads," and urges "major reductions" in stockpiled weapons...
Thus was born the first clerihew, the brainchild of Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956). Bentley went on to write detective novels, including Trent's Last Case (1912), and to compose editorials for the Daily Telegraph. But his fame was ensured by those dotty four-line biographies that kept punctuating his otherwise respectable existence. He lived to see his middle name enshrined in the Oxford English Dictionary...
While the quaint name and stubby bottle suggest that the drink might be made in the bogs by leprechauns, Baileys is the brainchild of chemists at Gilbeys. The developers were looking for an alcoholic drink "for people who don't like to get sloshed," recalls MacCarthy-Morrogh. The alcohol content of Baileys is 34 proof, or less than half that of many traditional liqueurs. The other goal was to create a product entirely from Irish ingredients that could qualify for the generous tax breaks the government offers to exporters. After testing dozens of potential beverages, including some strange-tasting...