Word: record
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This in itself could be labeled just so much horn blowing in a traffic jam, but the effect of Hoffa's campaign, both in Washington and the field, was to embarrass the A.F.L.-C.I.O., which kicked Hoffa out a year and a half ago. Meany is on record in favor of the Kennedy bill's restrictions against Hoffa's hoodlum unionism, but at the same time he opposes the minor "Bill of Rights" amendments, which would also curb activities of unions in general. Result: if he continues to support the bill, some of his A.F.L.-C.I.O. supporters...
Trout & Charity. These successes conceal Mattei's bleak record in oil development. He has driven private oil-producing firms out of Italy, and while neglecting oil exploration in the promising Po Valley, he has scattered his capital around the Middle East, acquiring concessions in Iran, Egypt, Morocco and Somaliland, with little to show for it. He benefits from laws left over from fascism, which give his state organizations monopolistic power...
Matched against the 158-man U.S. contingent, the four Russian newsmen seemed lost in the 1,174-man army of correspondents and technicians from 56 nations that swarmed through Geneva last week. But the Russians cared not a bit. Long on record as thinking the Big Four foreign ministers' conference a time-wasting prelude to the summit, the Russian government was out to shape the news, not report it. And Soviet press pitchmanship was an outstanding feature of the first conference week...
Shortly after Sir Malcolm Campbell died in 1948, his son Donald learned that a U.S. sportsman was preparing an assault on Sir Malcolm's world water-speed record of 141.74 m.p.h. "By God, they won't have that record," vowed Donald, "not without a fight they won't have...
...Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack. Our time will come in twenty or thirty years. To win we will need the element of surprise. The bourgeoisie will have to be put to sleep. So we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtones and unheard-of concessions. The capitalistic countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fist...