Word: teapot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find its historical place in the rather short line of federal manipulation and political skulduggery, big and small, that burgeoned with Ulysses Grant. The gold, whisky and railroad manipulations in the unsuspecting Grant's time besmirched his reputation for a century and altered the politics of the day. Teapot Dome, which blew up after the death of Warren Harding, became a textbook case in every hamlet in America. The deepfreezes and minks of Harry Truman's day caused his popularity to plummet to bedrock. And when Bernard Goldfine's rug was found in the living room...
...Administration's failure to make a case was highlighted by the fact that Powell wrote the court's opinion. Just last year, when Powell was a lawyer in private practice, he wrote that "the outcry against wiretapping is a tempest in a teapot. Law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear." From his new vantage point on the Supreme Court, however, Powell found that the Government's electronic surveillance was not "a welcome development -even when employed with restraint...
...were not in such an important teapot, the argument would be a tiny tempest indeed, a disagreement among a small group of men over the editorship of a publication that sells slightly more than 70,000 copies every three months. But the publication is Foreign Affairs-the most prestigious journal of its kind in the world. And the quarrel is a family matter for a major segment of the nation's intellectual and political Establishment-the nearly 1,500 members of the Council on Foreign Relations...
...Robert La Follette, Nye was appointed to fill a Senate vacancy in 1925. He arrived on Capitol Hill sporting bulbous yellow shoes and an "oaken-bucket haircut," but soon dispelled the notion that he was a bumpkin: he used his seat on the Public Lands Committee to expose the Teapot Dome oil-lease scandal. A steadfast foe of America's entry into World War II, he popularized the phrase "merchants of death" to describe munitions makers, later was one of the drafters of the 1936 Neutrality Act barring U.S. aid to belligerents...
...Cosmonaut will feel even worse served when she tries to find a bra, an enameled teapot or a new coat. Soviet-made clothing is ill-fitting, poorly made, and fashioned from generally inferior fabric. There is a shortage of meat grinders because the planners cut back output too drastically after production one year slightly exceeded demand. Enamel kitchenware is almost unavailable. Reason: the output of enamelware plants is measured by weight, so the factories meet their quotas by manufacturing a few heavy bathtubs rather than many small kitchen items...