Word: proclaimer
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...Tang's advice in mind, the half-filled room of council members threw their weight behind a plan designed to prove they hadn't lost touch with their constituents. The council voted to spend $500 dollars of student-supplied money to buy fingers--foam rubber "Big Fingers," which will proclaim that Harvard, like every other North American university with an athletic team...
...Reagan showed yet again why it is foolhardy to underestimate his persuasive powers and prematurely proclaim him a lame duck. Despite the obituaries written after the Republican revolt six days earlier, the most far- reaching tax-reform plan since World War II passed the House last week and was sent to the Senate, which will take it up in 1986. The surprising bipartisan triumph by Reagan and Democratic Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski came during the prolonged and hectic finale of a year otherwise distinguished chiefly by the achievement of new levels of fecklessness in dealing with...
...Sunday sessions of his committee in an attempt to breathe new life into the tax-reform effort. Though the meetings broke up at dinnertime, giving the baseball fans in the group a chance to watch the World Series, the lawmakers made enough progress over the weekend for Rostenkowski to proclaim that a tax bill would emerge from Ways , and Means within a month and be ready for full House action in December...
These and more than 12,000 other nuances of meaning and pronunciation have prompted Lexicographer Stuart Berg Flexner, co-editor of the landmark Dictionary of American Slang and editor in chief of Random House's reference- book department, to proclaim Cassidy's work one of the "major publishing events of decades...
...images from India's subjugated past, particularly from the British Raj of The Man Who Would Be King, Heat and Dust and Gandhi, of The Far Pavilions, A Passage to India and The Jewel in the Crown. These are echoes of an era when Third World nations did not proclaim their right to be like their colonizers but were romantically, reassuringly different...