Word: clout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago's Richard Joseph Daley, 59, is not only mayor but absolute boss of the state Democratic machine and a formidable political manipulator with considerable "clout" on the national scene. Almost the last of the oldtime big-city bosses, he is a capable, Buddha-like civic leader who has used his political power to make Chicago one of the best-run cities in the U.S. He still lives in the humble back-of-the-yards district where he was born, works late into the night at his office, and was embarrassed last week to learn that he had been...
...factly that "Elsa walked over to me and knocked me over in a friendly way, but it was very obvious that she was expressing annoyance at finding us so close." The author's serenity at such moments is so complete that it is hard to remember that the clout came from one of the world's deadliest beasts, made even more dangerous by motherhood...
...Randi Trio: Feelin' Like Blues (World Pacific). A first recording by a 24-year-old pianist who can clout the keyboard with macelike power or spin out feathery right-hand phrases with impressive speed. All the numbers-Summertime, Blues for Miti, Cheek to Cheek-not only swing but bounce, suggesting that Randi would be wise to reach occasionally for the soft pedal...
...stroke; in New Delhi. A broad-shouldered six-footer with sad eyes and a snow white walrus mustache, Brahman Pant was headed for a brilliant legal career when he joined Gandhi's independence movement in the '20s. He was jailed by the British three times, suffered a clout on the back of the neck during a 1928 freedom demonstration that partially disabled him for life with trembling head and limbs. He became Nehru's "tower of strength" during such later crises as Kashmir, though he remained a political conservative and a religious traditionalist in contrast to Nehru...
...politicos gave Paul Bagwell a good even chance of beating the machine. The Detroit News lashed Democrat Swainson for talking generalities while "citizens are coming by firsthand experience to realize that the businesses on which jobs are based cannot be expected to lie still forever while politicians joyfully clout them about the head...