Word: firm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Watching Bobby the following day on television, a tight-lipped McCarthy smiled only when Kennedy lauded his "remarkable victory" in New Hampshire. He stood firm on his own can didacy. "There's room for us both, yes," he said. "But it may clutter up the track a bit." For a while, he added, "I had begun to look as though I was the front runner, and I'm not sure I liked that. Now I am back in the race again, looking like a challenger, beset on both sides. I think it's a slight plus...
...group of young people and, I thought, a rather idealistic group of adults in American society; I said I would be their candidate, and I intend to run as I committed myself to run. I'll run as hard as I can in every primary and stand as firm as I can at the convention, and then, if I find that I can't win, I will say to my delegates: You're free people, go wherever you want and make the best judgment that you can make...
...major respect, the Senate code is firm: it precludes use of campaign funds for personal expenses, a la Dodd. It also requires Senators and Senate employees to list outside interests, property holdings, debts, gifts, etc. But these lists would be filed in sealed envelopes with the U.S. comptroller general, to be made public only by a majority vote of the six-man Committee on Standards and Conduct after charges of improper conduct had been brought and public hearings held...
...being flooded with Mao-carve. On display in Hong Kong are 1,000 statuettes, vases, panels and scrolls dedicated to the greater glory of the Chinese People's Republic. The titles are unlikely to win their authors any new accounts on Madison Avenue (typical stone-hewn example: Take Firm Hold of the Revolution, Promote Production). But if visitors can manage to avoid reading the copy, they will certainly be diverted by the eye-rolling ingenuity...
...This does not amount to a radical reshaping of the program for undergraduates," Perkins said yesterday. "It will give more structure to the department and firm up the requirements for honors candidates," he added...