Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Time and again. Buckley dropped back in the pocket only to come under heavy fire from Yale defensive ends Fred Leone and Jack Kelley. With stalwart Yale middle guard Kevin Czinger double-teamed and Buckley's mobility limited by the knee injury he suffered against Army, Cozza freed his ends to key on the senior signal-caller--with considerable success...
...adversaries to a staunch administration, union leaders at Harvard hold a thankless job. From all corners of the University, no matter what the specific union, isolated voices cry out for stronger action--strikes, grievances, unfair labor practice suits. The silent majority of Harvard's workers desires money in the pocket, job security and quiet. University officials no doubt relish this complacency and have an interest in fragmented unions. In the Medical Area, where District 65 of the United Auto Workers is attempting to organize clerical and technical personnel, the University will fight to the finish to prevent a union victory...
...past few years were supposed to oil the machine. It was not long ago when the great wail about Congress was aimed at the obstructive, old (and usually Southern) committee chairmen. Nowadays you do not see a chairman of the Rules Committee putting controversial bills in his pocket and going off to a Virginia farm, the way Congressman Howard Smith used to do in the '40s and '50s - "I have an old sow that just loves to have her ear scratched. I've got to tend her now and then...
...union vote are over. Crosstown in the Lorain Country Board of Elections, a woman who's watched the town for years knows, too. "At one time, the unions could deliver a block vote--but that doesn't work anymore. If the economy were up and they had a full pocket, they would vote Democratic...
LIBERTARIANS are a self-righteous lot; knowing full well they carry in their hip-pocket more political principle than most people have in their whole beings, they tend to press their advantage. And when they engage you in conversation, it's no well-who-do-you-think-is-more-dangerous-Carter-or-Reagan sort of argument; before you can blink they will be talking natural right theory. Without some preparation, you might be embarassed; worse, you might be converted to a school of thought as noxious as any that exists. But libertarians can be beaten, or at least fought...