Word: mail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began counting votes as early as last summer, only 27 Senators would declare their support of the treaties, despite the fact that four Administrations, two Republican and two Democratic, had worked toward the agreements for 13 years. Under the leadership of Ronald Reagan, the conservatives launched an intensive direct-mail campaign to raise money against the treaties, and public opinion polls showed 2-to-1 opposition to ceding the canal...
...Harriman and John J. McCloy to form the Committee of Americans for the Canal Treaties. Even as what the White House calls "gullible ideologues" were spending millions of dollars to defeat the treaties, the Establishment group was raising hundreds of thousands of dollars on its own, both from direct-mail solicitations and from large corporations with interests in Latin America, like the Chase Manhattan Bank, United Brands and Occidental Petroleum. Meanwhile, former President Ford began speaking out on behalf of the treaties, and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger worked on key Senators. Together, they made it easier for moderate...
...been a long time since the last appearance of this column. I had been writing it every day but apparently one of the "editors" had decided that it was just some more crank mail and just threw it out. So you probably missed the column in which I announced the dedication of the Blodgett Pool and my prediction that Harvard would beat Princeton by less than five points in the subsequent meet. You also missed my prediction of a blizzard that would force Harvard to shut down for three days...
...relatives, lovers, friends, foes and fiends alike, then I filled them all out and the envelopes too (making up zip codes randomly as usual). Then the phone rang. When I came back I sealed the envelopes and, ignoring my roommate's urgent pleas to wait, I dashed out to mail my Valentines. You know what he wanted to tell me? While I was on the phone he took the cards out of the envelopes to read them--then he replaced them randomly into the envelopes. Now I don't know which cards went to whom...
...Arabian government, which launched a formal protest. British Foreign Secretary David Owen apologized to the Saudi royal family for the Foreign Office statement. That caused Labor M.P. Martin Flannery to introduce a motion in the House of Commons damning Owen's apology as "groveling, humiliating and shameful." The Daily Mail accused Owen of truckling to Saudi oil interests: "So down on your knees, Dr. Owen, before they cut off supplies...