Word: clouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...investment by paying royalties once their planes are delivered. To be sure, the "progress payments" will not account for much of the two prototypes' estimated $5 billion cost, 90% of which will be paid by the Government. But the airlines' show of confidence could have some clout with an ornery Congress that includes liberal Democrats who fear the poverty program will suffer from...
...over the Allegheny County machine and the state party organization-Dave Lawrence demonstrated his own kind of big-league class: he delivered Pennsylvania for Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1936-the first time since 1856 that a Democratic presidential candidate had carried the state. By 1944, Lawrence had enough national clout to stem a convention tide favoring the renomination of Henry A. Wallace as F.D.R.'s Vice President. Amid a storm of boos on the convention floor. Lawrence demanded and won a recess. By the time the sessions resumed the next day, Wallace was out and Harry S Truman...
...been an unwritten rule, perfectly understandable although rather archaic, that the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra must not perform the works of German Composer Richard Wagner. Richard Strauss was verboten as well until 1953, when Violinist Jascha Heifetz played a Strauss sonata -a performance that later moved a zealot to clout him on the right wrist with an iron bar outside his hotel. Now the orchestra's directors have decided that "the time has come for a change . . . because of the paramount demands of freedom of art." So, presumably, Wagner and Strauss will now be heard in Israel-unless someone...
...elections proved at least that in Chicago, whose pugnacious brand of politics has earned it the sobriquet "City of Clout," Daley will still have plenty at his disposal when, as expected, he seeks a fourth four-year term next spring...
...golf team emerged from hibernation yesterday to clout Brandeis, 7-0, and Holy Cross, 4-3, and to boost its record to 6-4. Before yesterday Harvard had lost three of its last four matches...