Word: foe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...small Democratic Labor Party, controls the Australian Senate by 31 seats out of 60; Whitlam's Labor Party has a majority of nine seats only in the 125-member House of Representatives. In an attempt to capture control of the Senate, Whitlam last month appointed a longtime foe, Senator Vince Gair, former leader of the Democratic Labor Party, as Ambassador to Ireland. The government figured that it would win Gair's vacant seat in Queensland at the May 18 elections, when half of the Senate's 60 seats are voted on. That could be just enough...
...rabbinical body, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, has issued a new Haggadah, copiously and dramatically illustrated, that restores the old sense of ritual to the ancient celebration that begins this week. The plagues are back, though with a difference ("Our triumph is diminished by the slaughter of the foe"), and so is the closing wish for reunion in Jerusalem. The revised rite even endorses a search for the hametz, in which pieces of leavened bread are hidden so that children can have the delight of hunting for them...
...Director Steven Spielberg's Duel (1971), in which Dennis Weaver plays a peaceable salesman hurrying to a meeting through rugged desert country and incurring the psychopathic rage of a truck driver by passing him on a hill. His desperate efforts to avoid murder by collision with a relentless foe, whose face neither he nor the audience ever glimpses, is an unforgettable exercise in the action-suspense category...
...only twist added to the familiar punishment v. deterrence arguments came in the scathing amendment proposed by death-penalty foe Senator Har old Hughes-that executions be broadcast on radio and television. "If Senators believe there is a deterrent effect inherent in the death penalty," Hughes reasoned mordantly, "then my amendment will provide a way to greatly increase this deterrence." Hughes' amendment was defeated...
...like a brother. Last July 4, Ted Kennedy appeared with the Governor at a celebration in Decatur, Ala.; in February, Senator Henry Jackson journeyed South, where he said he would be glad to have Wallace on the ticket with him in 1976. The Governor also met with his old foe, AFL-CIO President George Meany, who came away doubting that he would vote for Wallace but acknowledging that the Governor had definitely mellowed...