Word: proclaimed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...helping exercise the gatekeeper function of deciding who should get through to the Boss-and woe to anyone who tries to interfere with her preserve. Among those who did early in the Nixon Administration was White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman, who tried but failed to proclaim his total control over the White House staff by having her office moved farther away from Nixon...
Several other colleges have tried to turn on teen-agers with music. The University of Akron has a radio commercial backed by folk music; Franconia College has one supported by Mendelssohn. Mississippi State hands out records that proclaim, to a driving rock beat, that M.S. is "the groovy place to get it all together." But Chicago's Loyola University has now outhuckstered them all by saturating the local airwaves for a week with its very own soft rock song...
When California Republican Don Edwards rose on the floor of the House of Representatives last week to introduce a resolution proclaiming National Family Week, he was exercising a hoary congressional reflex. No one ever objects to such innocuous legislation. But Representative Ken Hechler of West Virginia had had enough: "If my good friend from California can tell me what will come from the pending resolution, I will be glad to know." When Edwards could not, and, undaunted, went on a minute later to ask the House to proclaim National High Blood Pressure Week, Hechler threw down the gauntlet. Vowing...
...dollars in largesse among them from a loosely audited cache of government funds and forced "donations." The Evita cult grew alongside that of Perón himself. When Evita died of cancer at the age of 33 in 1952, there was an unsuccessful campaign to get the Vatican to proclaim her a saint...
ETHNICITY IS IN. In contrast to the Old World behavior of their parents, first-generation Americans tried to shed their ethnic identity and join the melting pot. Now, with Americanism under something of a cloud, people are rediscovering their ethnic roots and returning to native dress and behavior. Buttons proclaim: KISS ME, I'M POLISH, HUNGARIAN POWER and ESKIMO POWER. Richard Nixon has boasted of his trace of Irish ancestry, and George Wallace allows as how he has Jewish in-laws. Practically nobody tries to pass for a WASP any more...