Word: garner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said the success of the referendum would help his group to garner proamnesty support from such politicians as Senators Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and Edward M. Brooke (R-Mass...
...leadership of both major parties. The Liberals are committed to mandatory wage and price controls. Yet they also call for increases in the minimum wage and pensions-measures that would probably add to inflation. Although Thorpe's party will emerge from the elections a distant third, it could garner enough seats to deprive either major party of a majority. The Liberals might then be wooed as partners in a coalition government...
...years, politicians have been recalling the late John Nance Garner's observation that the vice presidency "isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit."* Apparently, being a candidate for the office is not so hot either. "I can assure you that having been 'considered' for the job in 1968 and having been 'considered' for it again in 1974," Republican Senator Howard Baker Jr. said last week, "I'm the world's leading authority on the proposition that that's the most helpless position in politics that...
...Actually, Garner said that the office "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss." After his retirement, he complained that "those pantywaist writers wouldn't print it the way I said...
Lady Cops. Meanwhile, Southern California, historic turf of the private eye, will have two new operatives. On ABC, ex-Cop Harry O (played by former Fugitive David Janssen) will work out of a shack on the beach. In NBC'S The Rockford Files, James Garner will become pretty much of a contemporary embodiment of his old sharp-talking Maverick self...