Word: reined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Albert's style of leadership is low-pressure. He deplores the sort of backroom bloodletting that has sometimes spattered the records of quick-drawing majority leaders of the past. He approves the Rayburn technique of giving members a loose rein when it comes to difficult votes. "If you whip them into line every time," he says, "by the session's third vote you're through. If you can't win them by persuasion you can't win them at all." On the other hand, Albert is tough enough to demand votes when the outcome...
...Then he jumped and kicked and walked on his front feet. Most times, you have time to slip him some rein, but Kenny was on the ground in five seconds...
...Lehman Bros, playing marriage broker. Ward's intends to pick up Interstate in a $50 million stock swap. The deal makes eminent sense to Manhattan's Cantor, who gives plenty of local autonomy to managers of Interstate's 42 standard department stores, but holds "a tight rein" on its 21 discount outlets. As an executive vice president of Ward's, Cantor would still run Interstate, but would be able to draw upon Ward's purchasing channels and expansion capital...
...that there is a good deal of all-too-plain prose about the Washington weather, small sums of money, and "good grub" at his boardinghouse. The reason for his reticence seems to be that when the poet's private emotions were most powerfully involved, convention made him rein in his rhetoric. The plain fact is that a great number of the letters written by the old buckaroo of the open road, the advocate of "the broad masculine manners of these States," were nothing more or less than love letters to young men. The caution he used in this clandestine...
Alumni reaction has been varied. Some, like Birge, favor the idea of a rigidly structured interview, in which the alumnus serves mainly to transcribe the candidate's remarks. Many think the use of a tape recorder would be impossible, Some, like Doermann, would prefer a free rein in interviewing, and would not-be willing to follow a set pattern of questioning. And, of course, nearly all interviewers would maintain their right to subjective judgment...