Word: joints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House dinner in his honor that night, Giscard sounded the refrain of unalloyed pro-Americanism by saying: "France is a dependable friend." The next day, in a 34-minute speech before a joint session of Congress (also delivered in English), he promised that France "will continue to contribute to the effectiveness of the Atlantic Alliance of which she is a part." Later, in a tent lined with the same red cloth as a Versailles salon, he entertained the Fords at a dinner on the grounds of the French embassy...
State Rep. Thomas H. Mahoney of Cambridge, vice chairman of the Joint Committee on Urban Affairs, said yesterday, "I'm quite sure the President will sign it. It's a routine type of bill...
...paper clip. They took the lowly beef patty and made an ideology out of it. How did dining under the heavenly golden arches become a transcendental experience, capturing national enthusiasm with a fervor surpassed only by the space program and World War II? How did just another greasy burger joint become a multinational corporation with sales surpassing the GNP of some nations, a powerful lobbyist with a very friendly Congressman and the nation's largest employer of young people...
Spontaneously, Illinois Congressman John Anderson moved "that the joint Senate-House Republican leadership of the Congress stand unswervingly and unstintingly behind the President and in firm support of his bid for nomination." Texas Senator John Tower seconded the motion. Republican Senate Leader Hugh Scott declared it carried unanimously. No one openly admitted that a President who requires a vote of confidence from his own party's key legislators is in deep trouble. "We all sensed he was a little down in the dumps," Anderson explained later. "We wanted to pick his spirits...
...married Lawrence Fanning, a Field editor, but instead of settling in Chicago they stayed in Anchorage and bought the Daily News for $450,000. Under Kay Fanning's guidance, the paper has been fighting to reverse a long circulation slide and last year signed a money-saving joint printing, advertising and circulation agreement with the Times...