Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon's defense of Rogers missed the point. It was Kissinger, not Rogers, whom the Senators wished to quiz-and not because they denigrate either man. The issue, Democrat William Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, explained in another Senate speech, was that "the people's representatives in Congress are denied direct access not only to the President himself but to the individual who is the principal architect of our war policy in Indochina." The clash over executive privilege is a recurring and complex one. The Senate has a right to review U.S. foreign policy...
...concert big band they get to play in these days, it is the only one they get to listen to regularly. As they blow, beat or belt their way into a complex piece like Thad's Tiptoe, which halfway on involves something very like a musical multiple-choice quiz between Drummer Mel and everybody else, the players follow each other's fun as avidly as the audience. Laughter, even whoops of joy fly out. Back at the rear wall, an extra-special solo flight by one trumpeter is guaranteed to bring an energetic handshake from another...
...ravening for a richer, more expansive life she could only dimly envision. Mocked by reality, she blames her husband, sometimes ludicrously. When she tries to earn some money on a quiz show and quickly loses, she feels the air about her filled with an ectoplasmic George. He in turn has the affronting frankness to tell her that he married her for her amusement value. Another fizzled fantasy. "But you said you wanted me to help you," she wails. Later, when years of poverty have taken the resilience out of both domestic warriors, George's tongue is at least...
...Lishman, 67, indefatigable congressional investigator; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. As chief counsel of a House subcommittee, Lishman directed the 1958 inquiry that led to the resignation of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams for accepting gifts from Industrialist Bernard Goldfine; a year later, Lishman was instrumental in exposing rigged TV quiz shows...
Wally Chao '72 of Mather House has won his choice of one dozen lollipops, a purple crayon or a pink pen in the CRIMSON children's book quiz. He answered 631/3 out of 75, plus getting the bonus question. Honorable mention also goes to the Welsh Triad (the Owl, the Unicorn and the Griffin) and to Miss Jansson's fifth grade class at the Summer St. School, Lynnfield...