Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blacks, of course, suffered the most in Daley's Chicago. It never worked for them. Although clever management by the mayor's ward bosses kept the huge black community in Daley's corner, recent years have seen them chafing under the yoke. They rose to throw Daley's states attorney out of office after he allegedly engineered the murder of two Black Panthers, and in the 1975 Democratic mayoral primary Daley failed to get a majority of black votes for the first time. Last spring black voters stood off an organization front man's challenge to Rep. Ralph Metcalfe...
...Averell Harriman, Robert Wagner, John Kennedy, Daniel Moynihan and Jimmy Carter were all grateful recipients of Liberal endorsement. Rose liked to claim that his party existed only to advance good government, but he once acknowledged: "Frequently, when you do what is right, it turns out to be also very clever...
...What happened was the result of confusion, rather than of malice," he said. "It was some clever person's idea of a clever parliamentary tactic...
Israelis were divided in their opinions as to whether Rabin's move was clever tactics or inept strategy. An intense, introspective man, Rabin has been increasingly unhappy about the smallness of his majority in the Knesset. After nearly three years in office, he is also weary of constant criticism from his fellow Israelis-both in and out of the government. During his tenure, Israel's inflation has risen to a rate of 37%, unemployment is approaching 5% and money is tight. While Assad and Sadat have captured world headlines with talk of a peace offensive, Rabin has been...
...John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion had the clever notion of resetting this story in the rock world, where heady glamour and careening careers furnish the closest contemporary equivalent of the Hollywood flush years. Barbra Streisand and her inamorato Jon Peters weighed into the project as Dunne and Didion drifted away. Batteries of writers and directors were exhausted before the present version was put together under-or perhaps around-Director Frank Pierson (The Looking Glass War). Yet, what the serious quarterlies call "the authorship" of A Star Is Born is unclear. Responsibility must surely rest with Streisand and Peters...