Word: garnering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Georgia's constitution bars the state's Governor from succeeding himself, so it was time last week for headline-happy Lester Maddox to leave the $3,000,000 Governor's mansion he built, step down to the lieutenant governorship and garner some finger-lickin' sweet publicity in the process. He invited folks to drop in and say goodbye-and 5,000 of them came. He dramatized the fact that the Lieutenant Governor is not provided with a car by riding his bicycle seven miles to the state capitol. And he announced some plans for augmenting...
...Medical School, Hamburg has built the Psychiatry Department from virtually nothing into one of the best five or six departments in the country. The Medical School is not well-endowed, and yet Hamburg has been able to garner support for the department he created...
They see the GM proxy fight as more than a vote for or against pollution control. However Harvard votes. Campaign GM will not garner a majority of the 285 million shares of common stock. Harvard's decision will only lead publicity to whatever side it supports...
...1950s, he launched concert tours with artists like Lionel Hampton, Nat King Cole and Fats Domino. "I was the first one to say," he claims, that "the big bands were going to die and be replaced by rhythm and blues." Feld's talent discoveries included Errol Garner and Paul Anka. But, in what may be the monumental show-biz goof of all times, he decided not to sign on the Beatles when he saw them...
...grievance is redressed. In Depression days, when unions were weak and embattled, the fierce rallying cry at the end of Clifford Odets' Waiting for Lefty-"STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!" -brought audiences to their feet with huzzahs. Today, playing before audiences sated with strikes, the line might well garner some Bronx cheers...