Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years ago, a retired lawyer named Raoul Berger was catapulted from obscurity to national prominence by providing an important part of the constitutional interpretations leading to Richard Nixon's downfall. His book Impeachment, begun in 1969 with only the problem of bad federal judges in mind, happened to roll off the presses during the Ervin committee hearings in 1973; it forcefully argued that proof of a criminal violation was not required to remove a federal official. A year later the Harvard-based Berger published Executive Privilege, which demolished the President's cited historical precedents for withholding evidence...
...almost casually last month, that was not how he obtained it in the first place. Vellucci enjoys relating the story of how, in 1949, he decided to sell his small family restaurant in East Cambridge (the mayor claims among his culinary achievements the invention of the hero sandwich roll), and then went looking for a job. Naturally, the first place for a young politician to look in those days was the State House, so he finessed his way into an interview with then-Gov. Paul Dever. Dever, the story goes, was so impressed with Vellucci's reputation as a rising...
...McCloskey. "The chair will not stand for that," O'Neill thundered, adding that he had "looked in [McCloskey's] direction ... expecting someone would rise and no member rose." Although the bill had already passed, McCloskey was allowed by unanimous consent to make a belated request for a roll call; when the tally was complete, the measure had failed...
This year Common Cause, the major oil companies and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce joined forces in a counterattack against the maritime lobby. Some recipients of past maritime contributions made a point of opposing the cargo preference bill on the roll call in order to demonstrate to their constituents that their votes were not for sale. Sensing the new mood, Speaker O'Neill decided not to pressure Democrats into supporting the Administration. The bill was "not a party issue," he said...
DIED. Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, raucous rock group that called its music "Southern raunchy roll"; when their chartered airplane crashed in a swamp near McComb, Miss. Among the six people killed were Lead Singer Ronnie Van Zant, Guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister Cassie, a vocalist with the group. All three were 28. Their latest album, Street Survivors, had just been released...