Word: snappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when President Bok wrote Walson in early February, he hoped to snap a two-year streak of turndowns. The Walesa invitation was initiated, as it is with each Commencement speaker, by a trio of administrators: Aloian, Fred L. Glimp '50, vice president for alumni affairs and development; and the acting president of the Harvard Alumni Association--a post held this year by Dunbar Carpenter...
...Foot and Thatcher in an attempt to carve out a middle ground between the two sharply polarized major parties. Campaigning last week in Glasgow, Jenkins and Liberal Party Leader David Steel held an innovative public question-and-answer session in Partick Burgh Hall. Steel, a tireless campaigner, views the snap election as a rare opportunity to boost his party's status with the electorate. Conservative campaign advisers have feared that the Alliance might do well enough to drain off Tory votes and deny Thatcher outright victory...
Thatcher calls a snap election...
Armed with that wisdom, Thatcher and her chief lieutenants scheduled an election-strategy session for Sunday at Chequers, the Prime Minister's country retreat. Thatcher was under pressure from Tory backbenchers to schedule a vote as early as next month. A snap election, they argued, would catch the rival major parties in disarray and take advantage of an improving economy. Others argued that a hasty vote would only damage the Prime Minister's credibility, which rests largely on a reputation for doggedly staying the course. Thatcher refused to discuss any date whatsoever. While the nation braced...
...much older than the leaders of other political parties, and for the past three years he has had to undergo twice-weekly dialysis treatments because of a severe kidney ailment. When journalists asked him about his chances of serving out a full four-year term, he would sometimes snap: "Everybody must die some day, but I won't be rushed...