Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George Meany, 85, gruff, cigar-puffing chieftain of U.S. labor who rose from Bronx plumber to president of the AFL-CIO from its birth, in 1955, to 1979. Whether battling for fuller union lunch pails, assailing Communism, or dismissing critics who accused him of being too conservative, Meany lectured Presidents and public alike with equal bluntness...
...department of general services for the benefit of some 1,500 public agencies in Iowa. A beneficent act of Congress requires that federal excess property be offered to state and local agencies, virtually free of charge, before it is put on public auction. That means before all those cigar-chomping characters who excel at turning a profit from reselling Government castoffs can lay hands...
...contrast to the wake-like atmosphere at the Park Plaza--where reporters and hotel staff outnumbered the smattering of Carter supporters--a heady mixture of cigar smoke and jubilation marked the scene in the jam-packed Commonwealth Room of the Sheraton Boston...
Puffing on his third cigar, James S. Harrington '81, co-chairman of Harvard-Radcliffe Students for Reagan, predicted the election would mean "a long Republican ascendancy. We expected a victory, but the landslide was a surprise--it means we've finally broken down the New Deal coalition...
...Allard" is Don Allard, the sophomore who came into the Princeton game with 3:21 left and proceeded to lead Harvard close to a winning touchdown. Close--as in no cigar...