Word: gantlet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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House members are lining up a far fiercer gantlet for the bill than the Senate presented. Many House members, who are in a cost-cutting mood, want to reorganize OEO into oblivion; there is also a widespread conviction that poverty funds should be pared. And, unlike their Senate colleagues, the House critics complement rather than offset one another. When the authorization bill runs its House test, the President is more likely to be fighting for enough money than fighting off too much...
Deputy Labor Leader George Brown had to run a gantlet through Wellingborough public schoolboys with Tory leaflets stuck in their boaters, who chanted "rubbish" every time he opened his mouth. "I take it for granted that you're an expert on it," he shouted back. Brown proved himself no expert on the subtleties of British economic life when he promised that Labor would cut mortgage rates to a ludicrously low 3% from their present 6% levels, which might appeal to house-hungry slum dwellers, but which to most informed Britons would merely sound like confirmation of Sir Alec...
...quiet years, an average of 600 a day crossed over. In the weeks of Torschlnsspanik (gate-closing panic) just before the Wall went up Aug. 13, the number rose to an astounding 1,700 a day. Last month, defying the walls, watchtowers, guards and dogs, about 860 ran the gantlet to West Germany, about half through divided Berlin and half across the zonal border. For October the total figure was even higher: about...