Word: slims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vince's football genius was not the intricate, intellectual sort exemplified by the Dallas Cowboys' Tom Landry or Los Angeles Rams' George Allen. His play books were slim: his orthodoxy stressed basics. "Football is two things, blocking and tackling," Lombardi liked to say. "You block and tackle better than the team you're playing, you win." In the Lombardi canon, malingering was a capital crime and injuries did not exist. "Lombardi time" ran ten minutes ahead of the rest of the world; whoever did not readily grasp this temporal anomaly learned at the cost...
...also challenge the assumption by some Republicans that a full-blown Southern strategy could succeed. Nixon received less than one-fifth of his 1968 electoral votes from the South: "Just let the voters feel that their President is trying to outbid George Wallace in the South and watch those slim, non-Southern pluralities melt all over the nation . . . The last Republican presidential aspirant who waged a Southern strategy reveals how successful that approach is. Barry...
...chances of overriding the veto of the agency funding bill looked slim, so Republicans in Congress could have it both ways on the record - for education, but against inflation. So it was decided, and hours later the President ve toed the two measures, explaining that "in both cases, the level proposed by Congress is a threat to the American pocketbook...
...Slim Hopes. Whatever the foundation of Dayan's accusations, the U.S. was indeed obligated to look into them. Before accepting the terms of Secretary of State William Rogers' cease-fire proposal, the Israeli Cabinet demanded -and got-several key assurances from Washington. The most important was a U.S. pledge not to permit any change in the military balance to the disfavor of the Israelis during the ceasefire...
...Israel's intelligence later proves substantially correct, Washington's problem will be how to make good on its word without fracturing whatever slim hopes still remain for permanent peace. Any proven breach of good faith on the part of the Soviet Union, which gave every appearance of supporting Rogers' effort, might torpedo hope for a Middle East settlement in the near future -and cause a serious setback in U.S.Soviet relations besides...