Word: fritzes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seemed that the other Fritz had caught the attention of the waitress...
...Ernest "Fritz" Hollings (D-S.C.) chatted with talk show host Jerry Williams for two hours yesterday afternoon, and attended the LeMessurier bash in the evening...
Organization? Bang, again. "Fritz" Mondale's troops even now are deployed throughout the country, wooing the bewilderingly diverse elements of the Democratic coalition: labor, teachers, feminists, blacks, Jews and legions of party officeholders. Long before the first delegates are selected, these efforts already are paying off, as the endorsements last week and this amply demonstrate. Though the teachers and union leaders cannot always deliver the votes of their followers, the endorsements will certainly mean more volunteers and telephone banks for the Mondale campaign, not to mention the ballots of many N.E.A. and AFL-CIO officials who will be delegates...
...April launch. The satellite is supposed to enable continuous transmissions from space to ground while the shuttles orbit around the globe. TDRS made successful hookups with Challenger earlier in the mission, but by the time Reagan placed his call, the $1 billion radio relay system was temporarily on the fritz. The cause: computer failure at the radio receiving station in White Sands, N. Mex. So Reagan's call was routed the old way, via a ground transmitter in Hawaii. Conceded Flight Director Harold M. Draughon: "We're having some maturity problems with the TDRS...
...Office, the funniest Republicans are in the Senate, Robert Dole of Kansas ("I don't want to say Howard Baker is short, but last week I saw him playing handball against the curb") and Wyoming's Alan Simpson. Among the Democratic presidential contenders, South Carolina's Fritz Hollings is considered the wittiest...