Word: brier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peter Brier...
...shock to many party regulars, who doubt that Daley's brand of one-man rule can be per-petuated-and who are, in fact, anxious to put the party and the mayoralty in separate hands. But the consolidation could happen, as anything can happen, in the brier patch of Chicago politics, where even in death the late mayor still casts a giant shadow...
...swimming in an ocean of air." Reassured by Nadia's self-confidence, the sellout crowds (scalpers got $200 for $16 tickets) gasped not in apprehension but with delight and awe. Indeed, Nadia seemed as at home on the balance beam as Br'er Rabbit was in the brier patch-hopping about as if she were born there...
...fresh face and funds just when the other candidates would presumably be starting to wear out. He has adhered to that strategy, but at this stage he finds Jimmy Carter still looking remarkably bushy-tailed and shrewd old Br'er Rabbit Hubert Humphrey poised to jump into the brier patch of presidential politics...
...before the arrival of the Shah of Iran at the same airport for a six-hour visit with Bhutto. By that time Mujib had reached London-tired but seemingly in good health. "As you can see, I am very much alive and well," said Mujib, jauntily puffing on a brier pipe. "At this stage I only want to be seen and not heard...