Word: suited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...businessmen might not get the impression that the President's Club was a vehicle for buying favor from the Administration. No more so, deadpanned Moyers, than the Rockefeller family's contributions to the G.O.P. were aimed at buying favor. Actually, explained the Justice Depart ment, the antitrust suit against Anheuser-Busch was a weak one and had been dropped "on the merits alone...
...Some Byrd advisers suggested bluntly that Robertson, who was never an important figure in the combine, should follow Old Harry into voluntary retirement. Instead, Banking and Currency Chairman Robertson years' campaigned on the strength of his 20 years' seniority in the Senate. Wearing the traditional white linen suit favored by Old Harry, he stumped the state making florid (and familiar) speeches denouncing the evils of big government...
...grew until it reached 17. Finally, last week, both sides gave in to a compromise that satisfied De Gaulle's main point. Representatives of South Africa and South Korea in mufti slipped quietly into Hallstein's office, were received by the EEC president in a grey business suit, departed without so much as a cup of coffee...
...states and the District of Columbia. Still, studies show that motorists are unimpressed; they fail to buckle their belts 50% of the time. Now the law is beginning to develop a powerful persuader: failure to use a seat belt may well bar recovery in a personal-injury suit...
When the case came to trial, it seemed a routine personal-injury suit. It took on a new aspect when Budner cited a state law that requires all new Wisconsin cars to be equipped with two seat belts. Though her new car was duly belted, Mrs. Busick herself was admittedly unbelted at the time of the accident. As a result, the judge instructed the jury to consider whether Mrs. Busick was guilty of contributory negligence by virtue of having ignored a handy safety device that might have prevented her injuries...