Word: meowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tigers' offense managed no more than a meow, and ace running back Chris Crissy gained only 55 yards. Brown evened its Ivy slate at 1-1 after an opening loss to Yale. Princeton holds the same record by virtue of an upset victory over defending champ Dartmouth opening...
...overriding question is what Washington will do about the price squeeze. Though he proclaimed the energy crisis the "moral equivalent of war," President Carter has behaved as if it were the acronym MEOW. Now his generals are quarreling publicly over strategy. Observes John Sawhill, who was the federal energy chief under Richard Nixon: "The U.S. could not have been less prepared for this shortage. What bothers me is to see members of Carter's own Cabinet go on TV and make veiled threats about military action in the Middle East even though we refuse to take the simple action...
Alley Katz, Alley Katz make me meow, meow, meow...
...Jimmy Carter's more memorable phrases was his description of his energy bill as "the moral equivalent of war." But the Administration has stumbled so badly in trying to get the program through Congress that the campaign has come to be known by the biting acronym MEOW. A major roadblock during the past five months has been a bitter and largely nonpartisan free-for-all on Capitol Hill over the removal or retention of Government price controls for natural gas. Last week, just a year after Carter first invited the nation into the trenches, the gas deadlock finally appeared...
...solve the energy dilemma. After asking Americans to wage "the moral equivalent of war" in meeting "the greatest challenge that our country will face during our lifetime," Carter put forward proposals that were hardly draconian. (Humorist Russell Baker observed that the acronym for moral equivalent of war is MEOW.) Indeed, if the financial discomfiture was to be as minimal as the Administration was claiming at week's end, the essential changes for Americans would be ones of habit and life-style?but those could prove more painful than dollar losses...