Word: sellout
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...seat in Congress-and slipped the scheme through the state senate with the cooperation of ten conservative Republicans who had fallen out with Romney. This, complained Senate Majority Leader Stanley Thayer, a Romney loyalist, was a "secret diabolical move." Fuming with anger, Romney accused the dissident Republicans of a sellout, but ironically, he may have to sign the bill into law if it passes the lower house. If he does not sign it, Michigan in all likelihood will have to elect its congressional representatives at large. And if that should happen, there is the possibility that Democrats would take even...
...presidential profile joined those of Lincoln, Jefferson and Roosevelt on U.S. coins as the first John F. Kennedy half-dollars appeared. The new 500 piece (it replaces the Benjamin Franklin coin of 1948 mintage) was such a sellout that banks were forced to ration first-day collectors. Britain's government announced meanwhile that an acre of historic Runnymede, where Magna Carta was signed in 1215, will be given in perpetuity to the U.S. as a memorial to the late President; a simple stone plinth will be placed...
...inner glee, "Yeah?I got it in Helsinki." The spectacle of Monk at large in Europe last week was cheerful evidence of his new fame?and evidence, too, of how far jazz has come from its Deep South beginnings. In Amsterdam, Monk and his men were greeted by a sellout crowd of 2,000 in the Concertgebouw, and their DÜsseldorf audience was so responsive that Monk gave the Germans his highest blessing: "These cats are with it!" The Swedes were even more hip; Monk played to a Stockholm audience that applauded some of his compositions on the first...
...German response was positive, and gave no echo of the Adenauer era, when every American gesture toward relaxing cold war tensions was interpreted as a sellout of West Germany. Erhard understood the U.S. frustrations and seemed determined to make his country bear its full share as a partner in the Western Alliance. And he readily agreed with Johnson that West Germany itself ought to join in the search for new paths toward East-West agreements...
With warm response from schoolmasters all over Britain, Langdon-Davies aims to visualize and dramatize "living history with its news sheets and battle plans, its surprises and disasters, presented in authentic detail." With his first kits a sellout, he plans new ones (possibly to be published in the U.S.) on everything from the Battle of Agincourt to the Boston Tea Party, from the Irish famine to the Battle of Britain...