Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Republican backbenchers started chanting: "Tip! Tip! Tip! Tip!" They were daring Speaker of the House Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill to break the tie and rescue the President, his fellow Democrat. But O'Neill remained silent, doing nothing. Not only was he deeply committed to the embargo but also he was furious at the Administration for the dismissal of his old friend, Robert T. Griffin, from the General Services Administration. Other Democratic leaders, however, were frantically mobilizing support-for opposite sides. Indiana's John Brademas, the Democratic whip and a leader of the pro-Greek lobby, was fighting...
...plenary" session usually lasts no longer than 45 minutes. The delegations then break up into smaller, "postplenary" working groups over coffee, tea, juice, cookies and peanuts. (Warnke's predecessor, U. Alexis Johnson, instituted a dry rule in 1973, fearing that one drink too many during a postplenary might lead to an inadvertent breakthrough-or breakdown...
...Brewers will be back in town after being pummeled by the now-second-place Yankees (seven games back at this writing), and it's only a matter of time before they break out of their current slump. Time and, just maybe, another look at that big green beauty in left field, which seems made to order for the likes of Stormin' Gorman Thomas (no relation to tennis star Tom Gorman), who is only two behind hot-dog-and-bacon czar Jim Rice in the race for the league home run title. Thomas's teammate, Larry Hisle, is only one tater...
...Britain's foot dragging threatened to block agreement on some of the most crucial problems to face the Community in recent years. Though an effort was being made to mute some of the quarrels for the present, diplomats predicted that a major clash across the English Channel could soon break into the open...
Kimball, a onetime realty and insurance man, had undergone throat cancer and heart surgery before he took over in 1974, but he has proved to be a vigorous, globe-trotting activist. He is at his desk daily by 7 a.m., stays there till 5:30 p.m. without a lunch break, then works until 10 at the home he shares with wife Camilla. In typical Mormon fashion he attributes his vitality to the fact that "all my life, from the time I was a little boy on the farm, I have done hard work." Like other practicing Mormons, he shuns alcohol...