Word: dealt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...possible someone else's (the obdurate Swiss won several crucial battles for him). Nearly always he preferred to bargain or bribe. Overconfidence in his talking powers sometimes got him into trouble. But because he knew his opponents better than they knew themselves, he generally came out ahead. He dealt with Edward IV's invasion by conning him into withdrawing his troops. "My father drove them out by force of arms," Louis later bragged, "whereas I've driven them out by force of venison pies and good wines...
Unlike the hunger strike, where the students' demand for any senior who wanted to be allowed to live off-off was not granted until months later, the black students were able to get their demand within a fairly short time. They dealt politically and angrily, and got a response with no accusations of self-interest. This was a situation of considerable confusion, but most pleasing results...
...Several women's group members have accused Dean Dunlop, who has extensive connections in Washington, of intervening with HEW to get an early compliance settlement for Harvard Dunlop last night categorically denied this charge. "I have talked to no one in HEW on this Issue." he said, "I have dealt with no one but Charlie Whitlock and Ed Wright." Charles P. Whitlock is associate dean of Harvard College...
...grand jury gave the expected whitewash, and the published report expanded considerably on its original mandate. It first dealt with the question of the Guardsmen (simultaneously deciding that a number of students should be charged with riot). The Guardsmen, it said, had "fired in the sincere and honest belief and under the circumstances which woud have logically caused them to believe that they would have suffered serious bodily injury had they not done so," and were "not, therefore, subject to criminal prosecution...
...President also dealt with a related objection: that government spending already lacks restraint and, under revenue sharing, would be entirely unchecked. Nixon's answer: "It will be harder for states and local officials to excuse their errors by pointing to empty treasuries or to pass the buck by blaming federal bureaucrats for misdirected spending...