Word: steers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last weeks of the campaign, Chicago's city workers scurried about removing dead trees, filling potholes and handing out shiny new garbage cans to voters. On primary election day, Democratic-machine lieutenants stood two and three abreast at street corners on the predominantly black West Side to steer people to the polls. Assistant precinct captains in the 31st Ward solicitously helped voters find parking places and brushed the snow from their windshields. Ward heelers elsewhere rounded up the elderly, the infirm and even the West Madison Street derelicts and took them to the voting booths. In these and other...
...being able to beat him at arm wrestling. Nathan's access to Mishima's family and friends yields fascinating gossip: details of the damp sickroom in which Mishima's dictatorial grandmother raised him until he was twelve, of his puritanical father's efforts to steer him away from writing and into the respectable civil service. When Mishima was only four, his father thought that he would instill manliness in him by holding him as close as possible to a train speeding by; the child's face remained as impassive as a No mask. Later...
...game." Matthews does not publish brochures touting his prospective All-Americans, as some schools do to garner votes for their stars in post-season honors races ("I'd be fired if I did!" he says), and he does not sit in on interviews with Harvard players to gently steer the conversation away from delicate areas. He thinks the primary1
...report lays much of the blame for the U.S.'s difficulties on American reluctance to steer economic policy toward more stimulus. The OECD economists worry that the "weak picture" they see in the U.S. could spread to other parts of the world. If the U.S. downturn begins to bite deeply into imports, some other countries could be pulled farther down...
...spills, strip mining and other environmental problems that even expensive technology cannot completely control. Ford writes that the environmental movement has "matured" enough to go along with these compromises. Whether that will prove to be the case depends in large part on the President's ability to steer the middle course that he now seems to have chosen...