Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...desperate last-minute appeal somehow symbolized the whole tumultuous campaign year. There, in a 30-second television commercial, was the usually dapper and composed Senator Charles Percy of Illinois looking haggard and close to tears. Staring straight into the camera, the onetime presidential aspirant implored millions of unseen viewers: "I got your message and you're right. Washington has gone overboard, and I'm sure that I've made my share of mistakes, but your priorities are mine too. Stop the waste. Cut the spending...
...differences in time to sign the treaty by Dec. 17, the deadline agreed upon at Camp David. When agreement is reached, the principals are expected to celebrate the historic occasion by staging twin ceremonies in Cairo and Jerusalem. In the meantime, however, the worrisome final business of linkage must somehow be settled...
...Once again the armed men turned up at Lillo's bedside to tuck him in and stand guard. But also tracking Galante was a skilled Colombo family hit man, Carmine ("the Snake") Persico. Serving a 14-year sentence in the federal penitentiary at Atlanta for hijacking, the Snake somehow managed to get himself transferred to Danbury. But during the trip north, he was held briefly at the Lewisburg, Pa., federal prison and was visited there by another Colombo gangster. Federal authorities interpreted the meeting as a sign that something was afoot and detained Persico in Lewisburg...
...West shipbuilding family, but Chet has rejected all that for fleeting fame in the three-chord world of rock and roll. Or something larger than that: A Mick Jagger-like figure with an equal part of Maharaji Ji and Keith Richard's bad teeth thrown in, he somehow got elevated into a spiritual godhead, an Oudpensky for our times. But somebody jumped the stakes on old Chet, and marked the deck--his final performance began with him crawling out of the rectum of a dead elephant to conduct a swordfight with a pitching machine, and ended with him throwing...
...here we have a race that shapes up, in many people's minds, as the old fat cat vs. the progressive challenger. Crane stands on his record and many votes of confidence and lots and lots of corporate and political backing as evidence of his competence. And somehow, Lew Crampton needs all the help he can get. "It's up to the voters," he says...