Word: membership
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be responsible for them. When I was Governor, I told the study group in Georgia, which worked six months full-time [on government reorganization] and had a total membership of about 120, not to worry about politics. I said, "Let's come up with a recommendation that would be best for our state. Don't you tone down your recommendation because you think it might not be feasible. If we have an argument with the legislature, we'll go directly to the people and let them make the decision." And we had extraordinary success in Georgia...
Worst defeat for Harvard: 1960, one bruised ego. During halftime of Yale's eventual victory at The Stadium, reserve place-kicker holder Julio Cabot Lodge was informed that he had been rejected for membership by the Porcellian Club and tried to commit suicide with a pair of tape scissors. The attempt failed and Julio now makes the lemonade for Tommy's Lunch...
Grizzled Veterans. With Hua on the viewing stand were the country's other leaders: the top army commanders and the entire membership of the Politburo (except the ailing Liu Po-ch'eng). The four purged radicals-Chiang Ch'ing, Chang Ch'un-ch'iao, Wang Hung-wen and Yao Wen-yuan-had simply been dropped from the Politburo and not replaced, thus reducing the membership of the party's decision-making elite from 16 to twelve. Sinologists believe that three grizzled, durable veterans of Mao Tse-tung's Long March who had long...
...presidential candidates only as a way of publicizing their existence. All of them complain of their treatment by the press, saying that while they are not news because they have so few members, there is a Catch-22 involved: unless they get some publicity, they never will get the membership they need to be widely recognized...
...foreign policy, the American Party demands that the U.S. build up its offensive capacity in order to force Communism to its knees, and for an end to U.S. membership in all international organizations that infringe on the country's sovereignty...