Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They were joined, some 70 min. later, by Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who had been conferring in the President's family quarters. At 10:30 the meeting broke up. But less than nine hours later the limousines were back at the White House, and a second round was under way by 7:30 Friday morning. This time Hamilton Jordan, the President's Chief of Staff, sat in with the group. For 1 hr. 45 min. they continued their brainstorming...
...while, U.S.-U.S.S.R. talks on the controversy continued. On Monday, Vance and Gromyko had met at the Soviet Mission to the U.N. Aides to the Secretary described the 70-min. session as dispiriting; Gromyko did not budge from the Kremlin's public position. Nor did he at a second meeting, which took place Thursday at Vance's New York hotel suite and lasted more than three hours...
...second incident occurred last week during Carter's town meeting at Queens College in New York City. In a long dissertation about leadership, Carter said: "We've had some crises where it required a steady hand, a careful and deliberate decision to be made. I don't think I panicked in the crisis...
...there is not a labor leader in the land who says he will not be missed. "George Meany is the AFL-CIO," asserts Fred Kroll, president of the railway, airline and steamship clerks' union. No one ever questioned Meany's dedication to the movement. The second of ten children of an Irish family in The Bronx, Meany became an apprentice plumber at 16. He soon proved as skilled at manipulating people as pipes. Stolid in appearance, sometimes slow of speech, he was easy to underestimate. But in any encounter, few rivals could match his wits or the forcefulness...
...second half Ferrante completed her hat trick when she converted a Sue St. Louis pass, raising her hands above her hand in triumph while the Smith goalie lay sprawled...