Word: clout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Mayor Daley still has plenty of political clout, he seems nevertheless curiously diminished. With Nixon in Washington, Daley will no longer be receiving those friendly phone calls from the Oval Room of the White House, nor will he be sleeping in Abraham Lincoln's bed on Washington visits. When Humphrey called on the mayor last week, he may well have noticed a symbol of change in Daley's plush office on the fifth floor of city hall. The swinging door that was once supposed to indicate Daley's accessibility to the people has been replaced...
...could the novices estimate the strength of their reefers. They guessed right eight times out of nine on the dummy cigarette, and six times on the mild reefer, but eight out of nine guessed "mild" when they were really getting a puff with a big clout...
...last week in Budapest, where Soviet party leaders reluctantly agreed to postpone the worldwide Communist Party conference scheduled for next month. The reason was all too obvious: Moscow's treatment of Czechoslovakia had infuriated a large number of the prospective delegates. Only last spring, Soviet delegates had enough clout in Budapest to win approval of the summit. Now, led by the Italians, Dubček sympathizers threatened to put Moscow on trial at the summit-and the Kremlin was not ready to submit to that...
...presidential primary vote (forty-two per cent). Baltimore is still very much a machine stronghold. New Democratic Coalition national forces hope to organize a liberal-reform group in a coalition with an emerging black leadership before the 1970 election to help re-elect Tydings and give some clout to lightweight liberals...
Imperial Russian counts have never carried much clout in the Soviet Union. But Count Leo Tolstoy is somebody special. Last week marked the 140th birth day of the great author, whose deep sympathy for the restive peasants of his day has earned him the approval of the Kremlin. To honor the occasion there was a large party at Moscow's State Museum and a mass pilgrimage to his grave. For a change, party functionaries and intellectuals found something they could celebrate together...