Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assure labor what he fully believes is its rightful voice in shaping Phase 2 of the Nixon plan when the 90 days have expired, Meany last week engaged in a game of political chess as only a man who has dealt with five Presidents can play it. In a cool-headed assessment of Nixon's timing, he decided that there was no way to challenge the President on the freeze itself. Thus, his first job was to persuade other labor leaders to begin immediately looking beyond midnight,* Nov. 14. U.A.W.'s Woodcock was among the first to agree. Immediately after...
Photocopies of duplicate registration cards made out to a single voter showed how a good pro-government man could make not just one but two trips to the ballot box. Opposition voters could be dealt with in several ways. The manual suggested "dividing the opposition by buying off their leaders," and "arresting elements considered as pro-Communist." Then again, one could always "blackmail a person with a scar"-meaning a person with an unsavory background as a smuggler, say, or a habitue of brothels...
...general air of charade is underscored by the sets, which were rendered in shades of brown and photographed with washes of white light so that the film looks like an under done French fry. The pace is so slow that the real Doc Holliday could have dealt a hand of poker during each halt in dialogue. But Stacy Keach manages to suggest some depth in the Holliday character, and Harris Yullin, as Earp, slithers through his scenes like a genuine sidewinder. Playing Kate Elder, Faye Dunaway is better than she has been since Bonnie and Clyde, raunchy and touchingly haunted...
...delight. They had just agreed on a draft treaty banning the development, production and stockpiling of biological weapons, and pledged to negotiate another treaty forbidding chemical weapons. Said Leonard: "We are particularly pleased that we are now engaged in applying real disarmament measures as opposed to earlier agreements that dealt with preventive measures against rearming...
...phony Welshman," W.H. Auden "a poet for the middle-aged." These men still have admirers, but they lack followers. If among the enshrined elders the seating order has been changed-as in the latest photograph of the Soviet Presidium-William Carlos Williams is the new chief because he dealt with commonplace objects by using common speech, and he never rhymed anything...