Word: preferment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bill Bradley, New Jersey Democratic Senator and former professional basketball player, on senatorial privileges: "I prefer to eat lunch in the Senate dining room than sweat in the Senate steam bath. I have had my share of sweating...
...other major Democratic candidates in the primary have thrown their support to Treen, whose buttoned-down conservatism they prefer to Lambert's unbuckled populism. In a televised debate, Lambert strongly implied that Treen had offered to pay off the campaign debts of House Speaker Edgerton L. ("Bubba") Henry and State Senator Edgar ("Sonny") Mouton and give them top jobs in his administration in exchange for their support. The outraged legislators claimed that Lambert made the offer, not Treen, and they challenged Lambert to join them in taking a lie detector test. Then Charles ("Buddy") Roemer III, who ran unsuccessfully...
There are some moves that the Soviet Union's World Champion Chessmaster Anatoly Karpov, 28, would probably prefer no one kept track of, including his wedding five months ago to fetching Irina Kuimova, 25. Certainly TASS chose not to. Announcing the birth in Moscow of a son to the Karpovs, the newspaper recalled only that the couple had been married "this year...
...Charlie Chaplin mustache belie a deep-rooted fierce economic radicalism. An economist who studied at the Sorbonne, Banisadr says Iranian foreign policy has "a single objective: freedom from economic, cultural and political dependence on the West." He adds: "There are two things you can do-fight or rot. I prefer to fight...
...That is not quite correct. I was asked in Parliament what my attitude as Prime Minister was to the word apartheid. It is an Afrikaans word, and personally I think it cannot be properly translated. I prefer to use the term "good neighborliness" because that is what our policy is: good neighborliness of peoples governing themselves with mutual respect. I answered that the apartheid our enemies presented to the world was dead. I will see to it that our enemies do not succeed in creating the idea that we are a lot of racists...