Word: shillelagh
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...Washington's efforts to get Bonn to change its mind and begin sharing some of the burdens of growth have been rendered counterproductive by the way the Carter Administration has wielded the dollar as if it were some sort of international shillelagh. That attitude has merely aroused suspicions in Bonn that Washington is once again trying to push its own inflation off on its friends. Says William Pfaff, associate director of the Hudson Institute Europe consulting firm in Paris: "There is a feeling in Europe that Washington is interested in Europe when it wants something from Europe, and that...
...also got what they call "smart" weapons; I guess I ought to say "smarter" weapons. There's the Shillelagh missile that's fired from a 152-mm. gun and is guided by an infra-red beam. There are a couple of others-a type of Maverick and the Copperhead-that are tracked to their targets by laser beams. Real Flash Gordon stuff! But don't worry about me getting vaporized by a laser or anything like that...
...everyone watching the parade yesterday was Irish, it appeared that at least every cop on duty there was just a generation removed from carrying a shillelagh instead of a night-stick. But if the Town of Southie has any laws concerning the public consumption of alcohol, they were not enforced by those men in blue wearing green carnations. Many of the reddest noses were found in places like Tom English's Cottage and Chauncey's pub, establishments packed to the rafters with old, freckle-faced ale-lovers and smiling lassies and laddies ordering up Heinekens because they like the color...
...practically every precinct captain, ward committeeman and patronage worker was there. At the head of the throng-which included members of the city's bureau of forestry, bureau of electricity, bureau of sanitation and bureau of equipment service-stepped His Honor himself. Sporting an emerald hat and a shillelagh, Mayor Richard Joseph Daley marched jowl by jowl with the machine's new hero, Michael Hewlett. The reason for this celebration was that Hewlett had just preserved the machine's supremacy by knocking off its bitterest enemy, the incumbent Illinois Governor, Daniel Walker...
...joined the Community 18 months ago. If satisfactory adjustments were not made, he warned, the Labor government would call a national referendum, recommending withdrawal from the EEC. Last week "Sunny Jim" Callaghan showed up at a meeting of EEC foreign ministers in Luxembourg with a smile instead of a shillelagh. In a rather more conciliatory speech than his colleagues had expected, he announced that Britain's Labor government was "ready to play our full part in constructing a new Europe." Nonetheless, Callaghan told the EEC, "It is in the interest of every country to find a solution that takes...