Word: proclaimer
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...Despite the monumental task of pioneering such a career. Fairbank maintained his wry and understated demeanor. He writes. "How do you get started in a field that doesn't exist. The answer is of course, that the field is there all the time, you have only to recognize and proclaim its existence...
...same news conference, Reagan indicated he supports in principle a burgeoning grassroots movement to ratify a 27th constitutional amendment that would require a balanced federal budget. Proponents expect the President's formal endorsement this spring. That clever tactic would allow the President and his Capitol Hill adherents to proclaim their support for balanced budgets on the 1982 campaign trail--while pushing through what will prove the largest federal deficit in history...
...longer necessary, either. Fashion, like Big Business generally, has had to make its own adjustments to maternity. And where fashion has not provided, fashion has been ignored. The racks still hold their share of flapping, color-blind muumuus that-depending on the relative age and condition of the wearer-proclaim either an imminent arrival, an imperative diet or a Tupperware cookout after sundown. Increasingly, though, women are working at their careers until very near delivery, and they need clothes to get the job done. "It seems as if every female lawyer in Washington was pregnant last year," says Billie Fischer...
...Alexander Haig learned in Geneva last week, linkage is one of those diplomatic catchwords that is easy to proclaim but difficult to apply. And when it is applied, it can create more problems for the U.S. than for the Soviet Union...
...spying and arrested him. The second half of Righteous Gentile consists largely of transcripts of interviews conducted on and off over the last 35 years by the Swedish organizations with those released from Soviet prisons who claimed to have seen Wallenberg in jail. Yet the Soviets have continued to proclaim his death. Immediately after the war, Sweden was reluctant to press the Soviets for information concerning Wallenberg for fear of upsetting relations between the countries. But recurring evidence offered by former Soviet prisoners has kept a widespread feeling alive that the Russians have not been telling the truth about...