Word: clout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nuclear Clout. In his eagerness to depict the nation's true strength, McNamara even made public such previously classified information as the fact that the number of warheads available to the Strategic Alert Force will have increased from 836 in 1961 to 2,600 by next June, with a tripling of megatonnage. His purpose in publishing such figures, he explained, was "simply to insure that none of us, friend or foe, miscalculates this nation's capability to fulfill its treaty commitments. I can't imagine anything more dangerous...
HOGAN'S GOAT. Ethnic memory is tapped as William Alfred evokes Irish character, customs and clout in Brooklyn at the turn of the century. Beneath the blarney and blather lies the story of the making and unmaking of an American politician...
HOGAN'S GOAT. Ethnic memory is tapped as William Alfred evokes Irish character, customs and political clout in Brooklyn at the turn of the century. Beneath the blarney and blather lies the turbulent story of the making and unmaking of an American politician...
...Extracurricular Clout Of Powerful College Presidents
Nothing much had happened to Corsica since Napoleon left home in 1779. The island's haughty, hawk-nosed men still rode off sidesaddle on their donkeys to fight vendettas. Their wives still milked the native sheep to produce a cheese with the clout and consistency of a plastic bomb. The sun still sank blood-red behind the Sanguinary Isles, while local folk singers recalled the prowess of Bonaparte in their atonal anthem, L'Ajaccienne. A calm enough scene-until early last summer, when the somber, somnolent island awoke to the 20th century. Suddenly, bombs exploded in the night...