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...became painfully clear at the Blackpool conference that Callaghan's celebrated skill for behind-the-scenes persuasion was no longer working. The comforting byword "Jim will fix it" had turned into hostile criticism of "Jim's fudge and nudge." Callaghan came to politics out of the trade union movement and had always counted on the union leaders, who tend to be nonideological, to keep the party on a comfortable center-socialist course. But this time the unions could not fall in behind him because they were beset by their own left-right split-shop-floor militants vs. traditionalist...
Last year the name Colgate was a hissing and a byword throughout the East Coast Athletic Conference as the Red Raiders terrorized opponents on their way to a 10-0 record before losing their last game of the season to the Delaware Blue Hens...
...Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon). In the case of the "New World" Symphony, familiarity has bred lack of imagination: conductors tend to blast through the great crescendos and wallow in the well-known themes. Not Giulini, however, whose byword is subtlety. The Chicago's famous brass is brilliant, not blaring, and Giulini achieves unexpected nuances of color and volume. Those who prefer their "New World" brooding and Slavic should stick with Stokowski's various recordings, but those with an ear for freshness will like this interpretation...
...profession. His fans emulate his manic delivery as well as his jokes, and Steve Martinisms are now popping up in conversations all the time. With the Martin delivery, an expression like "I'm a crazy kind of guy" can quickly become a byword...
Since that day, Chile has become a byword in the annals of modern brutality. Pinochet's regime is believed to have killed as many as 20,000 Chileans in the six weeks following the coup, and has certainly killed, imprisoned and tortured many thousands more since then in its effort to eradicate those who sympathize with Allende's goals...