Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time they (the Central Americans) have found that by joining together they have a clout, that they can make an impact," Sol M. Linowitz, U.S. representative to the OAS, said. "They are holding fast to regional loyalty...
Kennedy's clout showed itself this year when he led a seemingly doomed crusade against a congressional redistricting bill aimed at negating the Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote dictum until the 1972 election. Kennedy first promoted passage of a Senate version separate from the House's, and when all five of his fellow Senators on the joint conference committee opted for the House bill, Kennedy defied tradition by warring on the conference committee report. The Senate backed him, 55 to 22, a notable personal triumph. Yet he made no enemies in the process. "He isn't sneaky," says...
...hefty fiefdom along the Rio Grande and parlayed his brand of conservative populism (with due regard for the interests of cattle, oil and Democratic regularity) into 46 years of power. His political personality was quintessentially Texan: grass-rooted, plainspoken, coyote-cunning, and he set a style of congressional clout that made him perhaps the most influential Vice President in U.S. history...
Teachers in Detroit and-barring a last-minute contract rejection by union members-New York agreed last week to go back to work. They won salary increases, broke through a few barriers on educational policy. But mostly they demonstrated their new political clout -and left more than a little bitterness in the wake of their walkouts...
...asked disingenuously. "I didn't think it was quite that much." He admitted that he had received at least $1,000,000 in consulting and attorney's fees from companies controlled by Promoter Wallace Groves, an ex-Virginian whose political clout in the sun-drenched Bahamas has enabled him to turn his giant holdings on Grand Bahama Island into a lucrative industrial park and high-priced playground just 26 minutes by jet from Miami...