Word: shows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks ago Tom and his Dad (who happens to be Speaker of the U.S. House) got their acts together and went for King, in as big a way as they could. They got Jimmy Carter up there on the platform in Lynn, and if that wasn't a show for Democratic unity...Well, there were a few embarrassing moments when Kennedy refused to shake hands with the gubernatorial candidate, and when King got booed and hissed after he was introduced, but the President managed to patch things up by telling people that the Democratic party is broad enough to encompass...
Approaching a family on a first childabuse report is also a touchy, and often a profoundly harrowing, moment. The worker is instructed to be cordial, helpful, as direct as possible. And never to show anger - which is likely to destroy any chance there is of parental cooperation. "I used to sit in the car a few minutes before going in, psyching myself, making a deliberate effort to be calm," Belisle recalls. "But I almost ruined one case by blowing my top." That was when he entered the house to discover that the parents had tied a baby hand and foot...
...Supreme Court in 1969. Griffin also stresses, in current TV ads, the fight he made this year against the Panama Canal Treaties. Says he: "Next year I'll have even more seniority and my no will be even louder." Levin responds by scathingly calling Griffin "Senator No Show...
...Arms Talks. SALT is the most important part of our relationship. Signing SALT II will improve the atmosphere and help solve some of our other problems. Politically it will show that we can agree on the central issue of our relationship. It is hard to say how long [voluntary arms] restraint can last. Delay can stir suspicion and mistrust and could have tremendously serious consequences...
...Last week in Athens, Michaelides asked: "What had I to gain by murdering the woman I loved? Inheritance? I refused all rights to it when she died." He did admit, though, that after her death, he accepted presents of $100,000 from each of her two brothers as a "show of sympathy and liking." He maintained that his former wife's death was clearly a suicide and that she had tried to take her life twice before, once as a student when she crashed her car and once before her marriage by swallowing sleeping pills...