Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gave Boschwitz a 23-point lead in August, a worried Anderson began to hit back hard, insisting that Kemp-Roth would require a 20% cut in federal spending and cause an "inflationary explosion." His name for his foe: "Big Business Boschwitz." One Anderson TV ad portrays Boschwitz as a cigar-smoking, pin-striped fat cat riding in a careering black limousine, forcing pedestrians to leap out of the way. Anderson also does not hesitate to remind voters that Boschwitz was state chairman for Nixon-Agnew in 1968. Complains Boschwitz: "Guilt by association. I thought that went out with Joe McCarthy...
...WHEN CIGAR-CHOMPING Mississippi Sen. James Eastland finally announced last spring--with considerable hemming and hawing--that he would not seek reelection, he let loose a fierce pack of political hounds from all over the Magnolia State. Soon after Eastland said he would vacate his long-held seat, about a dozen state politicos started to cash in on old political debts and plan their bids for the most prestigious political post in Mississippi. Mississippians, meanwhile, braced themselves for more of the same cliches and hackneyed phrases that echoed in past campaigns...
Worcester changed that. The tallies flashed onto that big color screen--a neat electronic reminder that this game they call politics isn't so different from all the other games you've watched on a big screen, peering through the cigar smoke and hollering at every score--and then the cheers erupted. But they weren't cheers. Screams would be the better word, or maybe squeals: the sheer delight of a naughty five-year-old who wakes up on Christmas morning to find not the threatened lump of coal, but a shiny toy truck in his stocking. Sweet Mother...
Only two days before the regular meeting of Ford Motor Co.'s board. Chairman Henry Ford II, looking trim and puffing a fat cigar, assured reporters that no new president would be named this month to succeed the unceremoniously sacked Lee Iacocca. Evidently Ford was only trying to confuse the newsmen, because last week the directors indeed named a new president...
Chafin sits in his Grays Hall office, puffing on a cigar and contemplating his new surroundings. He is careful about his choice of words, only too aware that he is walking the proverbial tightrope; he has to please his new employers, but still work at assuring the members of the department that he will look out for them. He says the job is a challenge to him, not only because of the University's urban setting, but also because he must strive to improve the morale of the department...