Word: neill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jennifer Greeley, Line Black and Ellen O'Neill were each named second team All-Americans by the association...
...confessions and paranoiac public feuding, in the face of critical rejection and box-office failure, he went on writing, morning after diligent morning, no matter how he had misspent the night before. That poignant fact confers dignity on what was otherwise the pathetic wreckage of genius. Unlike Eugene O'Neill, his chief rival for the laurel as America's greatest playwright, Williams left no posthumous masterpiece. Indeed, unless future generations discern something more than glimmers of incandescence in the murky, forgettable plays of his last two decades, his effective career may be said to have stopped after the production...
...Republican protest was the first such demonstration since 1890, when Democrats walked out over another angrily contested election in South Carolina. "You know how to win votes the old-fashioned way," Republican Bob McEwen of Ohio told House Speaker Tip O'Neill in the heat of the debate. "You steal them." McEwen's remark was only one of the unseemly recriminations flung by House Republicans at their Democratic colleagues during the turbulent week. A relatively mild comment came from Minority Leader Robert Michel when ! he said the Democratic majority had "run roughshod" over the Republicans. Majority Leader Jim Wright...
When some of the Republicans returned to the chamber, to another standing ovation, it was clear that some of the fury had dissipated. "Mr. Speaker," said Michel somewhat sheepishly to his old golfing buddy, "we weren't going to stay away forever." The members burst into laughter. Replied O'Neill: "I am delighted to see my old friend back. As Joe Louis said, 'He can run but he can't hide...
...White House fully intends to raise the contra aid issue in Congress again, perhaps in two to three weeks. Increasingly uneasy as they pondered Ortega's East bloc journey, Democrats led by House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill met late last week to consider that prospect. Afterward, O'Neill reiterated his opposition to direct contra aid and pronounced the embargo to be premature. "Economic embargoes," said the Speaker, "should follow the failure of diplomacy rather than following the failure of the Reagan Administration to get its way in Congress." Nonetheless, as the impact of Ortega's Moscow pilgrimage continued...