Word: gruff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gruff, confident, opinionated . . . Respected by both labor and management as negotiator ("The way to bargain with a man is to reach over and grab his left testicle-and squeeze"). Has spent a day a week in Washington nearly every year since 1938, to offer counsel on labor matters. Used hard bargaining to fight inflation as head of construction industry's stabilization committee and as Cost of Living Council chief . . . Named Ford's Labor chief in February 1975 . . . Quit last February after Ford vetoed the Dunlop-backed common situs picketing bill...
...germinated a couple of years ago in the offices of Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, producers who specialize in action-adventure shows (The Rookies, S.W.A.T., Starsky and Hutch) for ABC. "Our motivation," says Goldberg, "was the fact that action-adventure shows were dominated by inner-city realism starring such gruff types as Colombo and Baretta. We just thought, 'Why not inject some really stunning beauty into the genre and see what happens...
...biology courses-- that clearly is a different species of problem altogether. As we all know, when men prohibit women from clubs or activities that are exclusively male, it is not only a case of chauvinistic stupidity (after all who but a blind, misogynistic male would prefer the company of gruff, hoary men to the enlightened grace of Minerva's daughters?), it is also a case of overt hostility, nothing short of predatory masculine regression. We have seen the results of this barbaric intransigence--four thousand years of patriarchal domination, constant war, social oppression, genocidal atrocities too numerous to mention. Therefore...
...gruff, introverted, monotoned, a career soldier who holds the nation's top political job. The other is suave, eloquent, literate, an instinctive politician in a key military post. Both men belong to the same generation of Israelis who grew up with the Jewish state's struggle for survival-and yet, even though they are members of the same Cabinet, they are locked in a constant, fratricidal battle. In fact, the rivalry between Premier Yitzhak Rabin, 54, and Defense Minister Shimon Peres, 53, has become so intense that practically every issue in Israel's hothouse politics polarizes into...
Hard Dollar. It is not simply that Alex is a fool for punishment. He makes his living from it. He pulls down a hard dollar as a bail bondsman and indulges in much gruff whimsy during working hours. "What's the good word?" a gangster client asks him innocently. Alex pounces: "Sunset is a good word. Pretzel is a good word." At last, the gypsy stirring in her soul, Maritza jumps the bail that Alex has posted for her assault rap and heads for Mazatlán in a private plane, accompanied by a rich gent with a lickerish...