Word: primed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort in the North is supported by an anxious voice from the South -that of Eire's Prime Minister Jack Lynch. This week Lynch is in the U.S. to talk with President Jimmy Carter and Irish-American leaders about the problems affecting both the North and South of Ireland. He is clearly no hard-liner in his attitudes. He castigates the I.R.A., despite criticism of his stance from the left wing of his own Fianna Fail party. He is willing to view Irish unity as a distant dream to be reached only after considerable evolution, but on one premise...
Representatives of John Connally, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter went shopping for tube time as early as mid-September. ABC and NBC told them to come back later. CBS offered each candidate two five-minute spots, one during prime time and the other during...
...motive power behind this prime-time soap opera, but there is no slighting of the six other deadly sins either -particularly avarice. The ranch house could pass for the Southfork Hilton, and it must take a tanker and a half to fuel all those Mercedes in the driveway. The lovely Ewing ladies flop around the house in designer dresses, and when the good ole boys go hunting, they don't pile into a pickup. They whir away in a helicopter...
Clementine was as staunch a Liberal as Winston was a Tory. Yet, as Soames tells it, his political career benefited greatly from the shrewdness and discretion of his "Clemmie." When Churchill was removed from his post as First Lord of the Admiralty during World War I, Clementine wrote Prime Minister Asquith an anguished protest: "Winston may in your eyes ... have faults but he has the supreme quality which I venture to say very few of your present or future Cabinet possess-the power, the imagination, the deadliness to fight Germany." Her further efforts managed to keep her husband from openly...
...pond in the Rambouillet Forest, southwest of Paris. Boulin was the minister of longest record, having served all three governments of the Fifth Republic in nine different Cabinet posts in 15 years. A respected labor negotiator, he was rumored to have been a likely successor to the unpopular French Prime Minister, Raymond Barre. Initial speculation that Boulin was driven to suicide by published accounts of his alleged misconduct triggered a flurry of attacks on the nation's press, but the minister's own suicide note reviled a judicial system gone wrong...