Word: garner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jealousy or pure inattention, U.S. Presidents have seldom used or even properly broken in their Vice Presidents. John Nance Garner, who served from 1933 to 1941 under Franklin Roosevelt, described the job as "a spare tire on the automobile of Government." Almost every modern President promised that he would upgrade the vice presidency and exploit fully the talents of the man who occupied the post. None succeeded...
...professors are by and large not big guns. They tend to be non-tenured people at Harvard and not-too-famous people from elsewhere who want to see Harvard, do research at Widener, or impress a department enough to garner a job offer. They get one-fifth of their regular academic-year salary if they teach a full course-load...
...honor makes Lowell the only poet besides Robert Frost to garner the Pulitzer Prize twice. He first won the prize in 1947 for "Lord Weary's Castle...
Star attackman Kevin McCall sparked the 16-2 varsity victory with a four goal, one assist performance, while crease-mate Jim Quinn made key feeds to garner one goal and five assists...
...business law class at Oklahoma City's Northwest Classen High School began to wonder how familiar their elected officials were with basic legal rights. As a test of that knowl edge, they drew up a petition and two weeks ago descended on the state capitol to garner signatures from legislators. The petition read: "In view of Watergate, we the undersigned firmly demand that the Congressmen from Oklahoma support the following article: 'In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein...