Word: middleman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter. Lyons retained the affection of both his subjects and his readers for decades. He conveyed the sense of having been there, of caring about what he wrote. In a time when the famous were more distant and more different from their audience than today, Lyons was an honest middleman who every day arranged brief, decorous peeks devoid of cynicism and leers...
...Jonathan Beckwith '57, professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and a former member of the Fein Committee, said lastweek Harvard used the Committee as "a way to diffuse the efforts of the tenants." The Med School was "acting as a middleman," he added, and clearly had no real power. "When the pressure got too strong, the tenants started direct negotiations with the Harvard Corporation...
...have been the Government's star witness, the person characterized by the prosecutors as "more or less the middleman in this whole affair...
...Secretary on his visit to Damascus last month for talks with Syrian President Hafez Assad are pessimistic that agreement will be reached easily or early. Assad has so far shown neither Sadat's willingness to negotiate nor his freedom to maneuver. The U.S. is prepared to play middleman, as it did with Egypt and Israel, but, said one official last week in Washington: "At the moment we are just muddling along...
...back-slapping Georgian who went to work as a welder in 1941 and later was an official of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, Usery has made no enemies as the Government's "middleman" in labor disputes. He has been a tenacious round-the-clock bargainer who often appealed to negotiators' patriotism. Usery was instrumental in averting a walkout of 13,000 railroad signalmen in 1969 and later settled a bitter, eleven-week teachers' strike in Philadelphia. In directing and coordinating the political, civil rights and community-affairs activities...