Word: middleman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short, Nixon's search for profiteering middlemen may well prove difficult and discouraging. Price Commissioner Grayson noted that when the public gets mad about food prices, the Government traditionally blames the "middleman." After meeting with the supermarket executives, Connally added disingenuously: "I didn't use the word middleman. I don't know where it came from...
...soon be followed by Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban and Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, the author of an Israeli plan for the West Bank that also calls for Jordan's recovering most of the occupied territory. Washington worried that both sides would like the U.S. to act as middleman, and is wary; mediation would not only infuriate other Arabs, but could also complicate U.S. relations with Israel. The U.S. will instead try to persuade both sides to keep working bilaterally, once Arab outbursts diminish, toward what Eban last week described as the "progress in stages" that might...
Though he rejects all labels, Krol sees himself as a middleman, true to Vat ican Council II in restraining "people who are trying to run away with so-called renewal." The son of Polish immigrants in Cleveland, he was a food-store manager, first became interested in the priesthood when he was troubled by his inability to defend the church against the barbs of a Protestant friend. Krol has spent most of his career in canon law classrooms and chancery offices. In a rapid climb of the priestly pyramid, he was ordained at the age of 26, became auxiliary bishop...
WHEN the U.S. three months ago became the middleman in Egyptian-Israeli negotiations over the reopening of the Suez Canal, Secretary of State William Rogers laid down an injunction. Neither side should present memorandums, he said, because written words often back negotiators into corners. He urged that all proposals or observations be kept oral...
Sadat is not the only one out on a limb. It is possible that the middleman in the current diplomatic exercise?the U.S.?and the two antagonists could all emerge feeling ill-used. The U.S. appears increasingly convinced that the Israelis have grown too rigid, as indeed they have. The Israelis feel that the Americans, particularly Rogers and his State Department, are so anxious to restore U.S. influence in the Arab world that they are willing to impose unacceptable risks on Israel. Golda Meir's government maintains that its policy of tenacity will compel the Arabs to come around...