Word: magnusons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprise so dramatically. Perhaps passion and emotional rhetoric are vanities that powerful nations can no longer afford in a nuclear age. Ideally, the raised glasses in Peking might even have symbolized a mutual reach for a new rationality and maturity among the world's major powers. ∎Ed Magnuson...
Thus the first of three free-food distribution centers in the Seattle area opened just before the New Year; five more will be opened later. The food was supplied by the U.S. Department of Agriculture after more than five months of pressure from Washington Senators Warren Magnuson and Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, who had urged that federal food surpluses be sent to Seattle to feed the city's hungry. People on welfare, those collecting Social Security benefits and most of the 30,500 who exhausted their unemployment benefits are eligible for free food under the new program...
When he told the Senate of the Japanese gifts, Magnuson declared: "I have never felt disgraced by my Government. But today I stand here on the floor of the greatest deliberative body in the world in total humiliation." Magnuson was angry because he, Jackson and others had repeatedly requested that surplus food in warehouses and granaries around the country be sent to Seattle. Agriculture and Administration officials, though sympathetic, thought that they were hamstrung by federal regulations...
...fisted "policemen." At this point last season, Toronto's Jim Dorey had amassed eight major penalties and spent 101 minutes in the penalty box; so far this season he has no major penalties and has been detained only 44 minutes. The Chicago Black Hawks' Keith Magnuson, the N.H.L. bad boy who once took karate and boxing lessons in order to intimidate his rivals, likes the change because "it leaves the fighting to the guys who can and will fight. It takes out the instigators, the guys who start fights simply because they know that their teammates will...
Reporter-Researcher Deborah Murphy, who has worked on nine cover stories, is as eblouissante as Magnuson is restrained. She came to TIME in 1967 after earning a degree in history at Boston University and working for three months on an Israeli kibbutz on the Lebanese border...