Word: texan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Appointed Robert Strauss, the witty and smooth-talking Texan who has become the Administration's trade negotiator and chief troubleshooter, as the President's special counsellor on inflation. That presaged a step-up in efforts to jawbone against excessive wage-price boosts, with Strauss as the premier jawboner...
...best damn appointment Jimmy Carter has made," drawled Bob Strauss not long before the President gave him the additional job of ambassador-with-jawbone to Big Business and labor in the battle to check inflation. Immodesty is part of the ebullient Texan's style. So, too, are profanity, sensitivity, a dislike for pretense, a taste for good whisky, and deft persuasiveness in almost any matter involving politics and politicians...
Leading 5-1 in the third set against Quaker Steve Berliner, Walker's game suddenly turned cold, and before he knew it, the Texan found himself on the wrong end of a 6-1, 3-6, 7-5 score...
...some big guns return. Lundy, known as "The Doctor" for his steady surgical brand of play, and for his long hours of work, will play at number-one after three years at the two spot. Smiling Texan guitar-picker Scott Walker moves up from three to two, while Don Pompan, a freshman whiz from Southern California, has jumped into the three spot...
...Sometimes I wish I wasn't as good so the crowd would react more to what I do," says the 21-year-old Czechoslavakian-turned-Texan...