Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With jowls jiggling and eyebrows all but airborne, North Carolina's retiring Democratic Senator Sam Ervin could not resist going out on a quote. As the Senate Watergate committee gathered in the Old Senate Caucus Room for its final news conference, Ervin summed up the meaning of it all with the help of liberal sayings from the Scriptures and the classics, including a ripely solemn phrase from Rudyard Kipling: "For the sin they do by two and two they must...
...Attorney and election to the state assembly. After a bruising contest in 1970, he narrowly defeated Adam Clayton Powell for the Democratic nomination to Congress. Two years later he was re-elected with 96% of his district's vote. The ebullient Rangel is chairman of the congressional Black Caucus and a Judiciary Committee member who outspokenly advocates the President's impeachment...
...movement, Steinem has done much to change viewpoints, and now she is retiring from the talk circuit to concentrate on writing. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Smith, she serves on the advisory board of the National Organization for Women, helped convene the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971 and is a co-founder and editor of the highly successful Ms. magazine (circ...
...offer apparently came as a surprise to Harvard's representatives, who went into a lengthy caucus and finally rejected the union's proposal, Norton said...
...other nominees of the 40-member Maass caucus who won election to the council are William N. Lipscomb, Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, George F. Carrier, Coolidge Professor of Applied Mathematics, and James S. Duesenberry, chairman of the Economics Department...