Word: forcefullness
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O'Neill retired from his congressional seat in 1986 after representing the Eighth Congressional District for 30 years. As speaker during the last decade of his tenure in the House, O'Neill raised his forceful voice against those who would forget our society's disadvantaged. He led the opposition to...
Seven times Harvard's forceful power play met the malleable Brown penalty killers and helpless Harvey Saturday at Bright Center. Four times, the Crimson turned those power play into goals. Three would have been enough, as Harvard extra-man handled Brown, 5-2.
The new chief of staff and his predecessor are about as different as two people can be. While Donald Regan is forceful and autocratic, Baker is easygoing and self-effacing. Regan had no feel for politics and disdained the often subtle maneuvering that makes for a constructive relationship between the...
But the observers said that only by continuing to take a forceful role in future White House activities will
In the three hours we spent with Gorbachev he was alternately soft-spoken and forceful, detached and caustic, critical and cordial. Most impressive was the way he conducted the meeting. Unlike the other Soviet officials with whom we met, he did not make a prepared opening statement. Instead, he began...