Word: catbird
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pursue the dream of a grand compromise that included some resolution on the Strategic Defense Initiative, rather than stick to the original U.S. goal of a medium-range-missile deal not linked to SDI. If Reagan accepted the bait, as he initially did, the Soviets would be in the catbird seat. Either Reagan would end up curtailing Star Wars, or he would emerge as the Grinch who stole Christmas, the man who dashed hopes for a radical breakthrough in arms control...
...among them 80 brightly painted vehicles, 250 colorful people, a hippo, a rhino, a giraffe, assorted lions, tigers, llamas, horses, donkeys, zebras, elephants and goats. The last to leave home base was the owner, D.R. Miller, who felt rather special and unhurried about this, his 50th year in the catbird seat...
Michael was in the catbird seat for job choices, and through a network of friends he picked Atlanta and legal services for the poor. Elizabeth threw herself into expanding her cooking skills. They spent their money on art, food and wine. They found dinner parties, with the right mix of wits, a favorite form of entertainment. Michael loved "doing the wines," as he called it, and Elizabeth adored "orchestrating as much as possible beforehand, so that I could zip into the kitchen at the last minute without missing much of the conversation...
...kick that poorly when we needed it. And their special teams, their return guy really turned the game around. He gave them the momentum that they did not have. I'm proud of the first half. They kicked the crap out of Harvard...We were sitting in the catbird's seat. But adversity struck and we didn't handle it. The offense lost sync and coordination, which is what we obviously wanted to keep away from. The disaster we had at Brown last week, when we got smashed 35-0 [in a preseason scrimmage], the first half was like...
...post of dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Harvard University is the academic equivalent of James Thurber's catbird seat. Besides overseeing the undergraduate colleges, the dean is in charge of some of the nation's most distinguished graduate programs. In addition, he can capitalize on Harvard's enormous influence over other American colleges and universities. After Dean Henry Rosovsky introduced a "core curriculum" in 1979 for Harvard undergraduates, many other liberal arts colleges rushed to alter their programs. Thus it was of far more than parochial interest when Harvard last week announced...