Word: shoehorned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Attorney General Griffin Bell managed to shoehorn an energy pitch into a speech to the National Security Traders Association in Boca Raton, Fla. Speaking at the commissioning of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower in Norfolk, Va., Defense Secretary Harold Brown found a way to deplore the fact that the nation "relies on overseas sources for half the oil we consume." On a swing through Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano strayed from his talks on welfare problems to argue that the poor would suffer most if the Senate failed to approve Carter...
...company, three's a crowd," the cliché goes-especially, as claustrophobic college students are learning this fall, when schools shoehorn three roommates into quarters meant for two. College dorms, of course, have been crowded for years. But no one was expecting a bulge this year. Scared by the imminent end of the baby boom, cost-conscious colleges, like airlines overbooking, vastly overaccepted students last spring in an effort to insure enough. When fewer freshmen than usual decided to switch schools at the last minute-coupled with an unexpected back-to-campus movement by upperclassmen newly eager...
...continuing effort to try to shoehorn a few more people and ideas into Jimmy Carter's days, Scheduler Tim Kraft's shop photocopied the President's schedules and laid them out for study. The visual impact was stunning?ranks of names, events, ceremonies. No wonder, they muttered, the planned 55-hour week for Carter had grown to 71 hours and, if the truth about his private time were known, probably 80 or more...
...ballooning romantic waiting to get out. She is also a useful vehicle for a meditation on the possibilities of modern fiction. In unobtrusive layers of allusion, Atwood pays homage to earlier forms of the novel - the picaresque, the gothic romance, the Bildungsroman and Victorian saga. She tries to shoehorn her heroine's life into the coherent contours of those forms, but Joan Foster won't sit still for the fitting. Even the baggiest literary shapes require a greater certainty about life than heroine - or author - can muster. "It did make a mess," says Joan Foster as she sums...
...Fred Fox, former controller, were denied the chance to reply before the audit committee to a damaging report on the accounts payable department last winter. Roberts has claimed, and offered substantial supporting evidence in a statement November 2, that the report was grossly misleading. The report was used to shoehorn Roberts out of the department and undermine Fox's responsibilities, and led eventually to their resignations...