Word: clubbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powerlessness of his office, however, Giri does have one mighty club: he can dissolve Parliament. Only three times since India won its independence in 1947 has this power been used, and then mainly as a routine prologue to scheduled elections. Should Indira run into serious political difficulty, however, such a dissolution would leave her as caretaker Prime Minister for six months, and thus allow plenty of time to prepare for the required elections...
...call him (her) a "twit." Be it ever so hurtful, there is no place like home, and in its pathetic way the Charlie-Harry relationship is a bad marriage that works. The law threatens to sever it. Charlie has been apprehended doing a transvestite turn in a gay club, and must appear in court. Like gentle, trapped and panicky animals, Charlie and Harry evoke the moral of compassion that underlies Staircase...
...York Giants bought Mc-Graw's genius in 1902 and made him player-manager. On and off the field, his style perfectly suited the abrasive, autocratic temper of the times. The lions of Broadway and Tammany Hall loved the feisty little manager. He drank at The Lambs club with George M. Cohan, and eventually became one of Mayor Jimmy Walker's favorite cronies...
...club's greatest attractions is its members. "There are eligible young bachelors at all of our parties," enthuses Sharon Caudle, 24, an insurance company trainee. "If I can meet all these men for $3 a month, then I'm getting my money's worth." The feeling is widespread, and a quarter of the club's 2,000 members are single women. Bank officers had expected to enroll 2,200 young Houstonians in the first year, but that goal has already been reached and 500 new members are signing up each month. More surprising, they maintain...
Lifelong Friends. The youth club idea originated at Chicago's Central National Bank in 1967 as a way of acquainting young people with the wide range of services a bank can offer. "By extending ourselves now," explains Paul Jaffe, the officer in charge of the Chicago club, "we hope to make lifelong friends." Central National has avoided anything so flamboyant as a beer bust, but its club activities run the gamut from Caribbean cruises to courses in speed reading...