Word: floor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bill bogged down in the committee last summer, Chairman Al Ullman asked Jones to see if he could find a compromise. Jones pieced together a combination of general tax reductions and capital-gains cuts that won the committee's endorsement. When the legislation came to the House floor, he led a coalition of center-right Democrats that helped pass the bill by an overwhelming...
Marine biologists point out that lobsters are already being dangerously overfished. Off New England, lobster "pots" -the bait-loaded wooden traps used to snare the creatures-are so densely packed on the ocean floor that a lobster can barely move without bumping into one. Farther offshore, foreign fishermen have been using more sophisticated dredges to scoop up lobsters. In all too many cases, young females are removed before they have had a chance to reproduce; often they are taken under the typical state legal limit of 3 3/16 in. from eye socket to the beginning of the tail, a restraint...
Baker's other great gift is his consistency. Each year he finds the endurance to be sharp and fresh and surprising nearly 150 times. The gross wordage he turns out over a year would amount to a fair-size novel. In Baker's book-lined office on the tenth floor of the Times building, just off Times Square, is a photo of the Marx brothers. The inscription is by Groucho, and it reads, "You are the reason I read the New York Times...
...came, he says, one afternoon when he had been sitting for some hours on the cold marble floor of a corridor in the Senate Office Building, outside a closed meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee. "I began to wonder why, at the age of 37, I was wearing out my hams waiting for somebody to come...
...works on the top floor of their spacious brick house. Elkin writes in the kitchen to be near the swimming pool and the bathroom. He has some trouble getting around. In 1961 he suffered the first symptoms of multiple sclerosis, a swelling of the optic nerve known as retro-bulbar opticneuritis. "It's a dumb disease," says Elkin. "It kills you by inches but you suffer by yards...