Word: sustainers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that is not to say that Jerry Ford, if he can maintain his balancing act during the next 2½ years, will not be willing to accept a draft from the Republican Party that he is now helping mightily to sustain...
Neither can Nixon hope to sustain any personally proclaimed restrictions on his cooperation with the Judiciary Committee. The day after his appearance before Congress, the 21 Democrats and 17 Republicans on the committee voted unanimously to seek full subpoena powers from the House to aid its impeachment inquiry-a request certain to be quickly approved. Leading Republicans on the committee have expressed agreement with both Chief Counsel John Doar and Minority Counsel Albert Jenner that such subpoenas, under the Constitution's grant of impeachment authority to the House, cannot be legally refused by the President. He can even...
...work with the White House-especially with former Congressman Melvin Laird, who was then on Nixon's staff. When the two old acquaintances met, O'Neill told Laird: "We've got the votes to pass legislation. You've got the votes to sustain vetoes. Let's talk." Talk they did, and what emerged from the conference was compromises that led to the passage of such bills as the act reforming manpower training...
...soloing, from guitarist Bill Connors and Corea. Connors has developed a unique hybrid sound, one that draws equally from the last five years or so of rock guitar playing. He has a very heavy tone, almost ponderous and always close to the listener; the result of combined use of sustain and vibrato from the usual bank of foot switches filtered through a slightly open wah-wah pedal. You can hear shades of everyone from Eric Clapton to John McLaughlin. His solos were short, to maintain a structural balance, but beautifully constructed out of soaring lines and tasteful phrases. Connors...
...wrote, that "a radical publication in the atmosphere of 1953 could only grow slowly anyway," he recruited readers from old P.M. and New York Compass subscription lists rather than attempt to mount an advertising campaign. Stone said in 1971 that he had figured only the paper's quality could sustain it, so he adopted a sober typography and straightforward tone. After eight cautious printers refused to help Stone publish his newsletter, he found two men who would. I.F. Stone's Weekly debuted...