Word: squeaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overcome the handicap of being unable to communicate with his fellow fielders. Many of his teammates learned sign language. But the men who played alongside him, for example Tommy Leach during the 1899 season and Hall of Famer Wahoo Sam Crawford during 1902, listened for a sort of throaty squeak he made when calling for a ball...
...Attitude toward labor. Many businessmen worry that Carter has mortgaged his policymaking future to the union chiefs whose get-out-the-vote drives helped him squeak through to victory. The AFL-CIO's crusty old president George Meany pooh-poohs that idea. Says Meany: "The only commitment I have from Jimmy Carter is that when we've got a problem, he'll consider it." The numerous executives who doubt that may take some heart from the fact that Meany also opposes wage-price controls, which he feels hold down wages more than prices...
...suddenly become a star of the rowdiest brand of country rock -honky-tonk. Were he in a larger town, promoters and agents would be nervously pinching their digitals. But this is a languid evening in Fort Pierce, Fla., Stewart's home town, and the squeak of a front-porch rocker is music enough for now. Besides, one must rest after a supper of pork chops and okra. Digestion is a ritual, a time for introspective belching. "It stays nice and slow here," Stewart sighs. "Everybody's family. It's the South, and I'll never leave...
...squeak-through victory against a patsy, either. Running against three serious opponents, Hayakawa achieved a comfortable eleven-point plurality over Robert Finch, 50, his principal adversary. Finch, once a close friend of Richard Nixon's, was California's top vote getter ten years ago when he won the lieutenant governorship. Later he served as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon Administration...
...thing Jimmy Carter, Henry Jackson and Morris Udall bloodied each other in the New York and Wisconsin primaries. In New York, Jackson won almost as many delegates as the other two combined, but fell far short of the "landslide" he had predicted, while Carter barely managed to squeak by Udall in Wisconsin. The real winner was Humphrey, who hopes that a deadlock will force the Democratic convention to turn to him in July...