Word: outset
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...outset of his presidential campaign, Barry Goldwater figured that the best way to handle the farm issue would be to ignore it. After all, he had already set down his views in Conscience of a Conservative, where he advocated "prompt and final termination of the farm subsidy program." Barry thought he would just stand or fall with that. As it turned out, he is falling...
...fact is that since 1954, NATO itself has based its defense planning, even against conventional attack, on "using atomic weapons from the outset of a war." In a mere gunpowder war, NATO planners estimate that their forces could withstand a massive Soviet attack for a bare three days before being forced back to the banks of the Rhine; within 30 days the NATO troops would be swept from the Continent...
...York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating, his white hair freshly trimmed, his face newly tanned, waved at the cameras in the Overseas Press Club in Manhattan. "Well, ladies and gentlemen," he began, "we all know what we're here for. And I want to announce at the outset that I will not be a candidate for the United States Senate . . ." Newsmen froze. ". . . from Massachusetts." Keating grinned. His audience laughed...
...longer-quite-so-underling above having a go at marrying the boss' daughter; and since her fiance of record at the outset is a buck-toothed, horse-faced, pompous young peer, so much the better. (Daughter--played by Millicent Martin--seems somehow to have avoided the quasigenetic blight of the elite; she is attractive, intelligent, and spirited enough to reconcile even a John Osborne...
...second time before the bar, Roy Cohn got another break. Unlike Sam Sheppard (see above), he never had to worry about an overzealous and unfriendly press. Reporters rarely got near him. At the outset of the trial, Judge Dudley Bonsal warned jurors to avoid reading controversial stories about Cohn and not to see Point of Order, the documentary film on the Army-McCarthy hearings in which Cohn starred. Judge Bonsal refused to let newsmen into the well of the court during recess to talk to witnesses or counsel, and he scolded those papers that printed the names of the jurors...