Word: plateful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sometimes the talk got tough. Asked to select three for lunch with Carter, Dayan replied, "We want four, and if we don't have four, they can have lunch without me." Four it was. After all, another plate on the table among neighbors is no big deal. Now and then Carter grew weary of the lawyering. Around the hearth in such intimate circumstances, good men, he thought, should quit nitpicking and get down to real meanings. "That's as much as you are going to get," he told the Israelis at one point. "That's clear...
With that, Jimmy Carter wiggled his fingers at the 2,000 cheering Democrats who last week Attended a $100-a-plate dinner in Baltimore's Civic Center. Carter was on hand to give a boost to Harry Hughes, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Maryland, but the President was also putting in a well-deserved plug for himself. As the 95th Congress came to a tumultuous close after passing 189 bills in its final week, Carter had reason to be pleased. Said the President: "We have a firm grip now on the fiscal management of our Government...
Quarterback Larry Brown was last week's big story, though. The senior right-hander mixed his plays well in the second half, zipping the ball into his receivers' bellies the way he works the corner of the plate on a baseball diamond...
...brown bear. There, according to the International Council of Hunting and Game Preservation, Ceauşescu shot the largest bear ever recorded in the history of hunting in Europe. This month, the general manage? of the council, François Edmond-Blanc, presented Ceauşescu with a golden plate. He declared that the Rumanian leader had beaten the previous world record by 100 points, according to a complex formula involving the bear's size and the quality of its fur. A bit of East Bloc one-upmanship added to Ceauşescu's triumph. The previous record...
Last week Rhodes told 70 Republicans at a $25-a-plate luncheon in rural Carroll County that employment is the key campaign issue. With typical bombast, he attacked bureaucrats who "do not-understand the courageous mother who has to line her children up and say, 'There's no Christmas this year because your father doesn't have a job.' " Rhodes claims credit for attracting 481,000 new jobs to Ohio and cutting welfare rolls by 40,000 since...