Word: tipping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guest of honor at the annual corned beef and cabbage "dinner." Most years the parade follows the dinner, winding slowly through the hills of Southie. This year, though, the 15,000 participants, including Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.); John McCormack, former speaker of the House; Thomas P. 'Tip" O'Neill (D-Mass.), current speaker of the House; and Rep. Joseph Moakley (D-Mass.), who are jointly sponsoring a float, will have to wait until Sunday to march. The parade, which will also include the Budweiser Clydesdales and 30 marching bands, most of them playing When Irish Eyes...
...circumstances, then we can't do anything about the situation in the Middle East, and it is doomed to failure." Helms claimed that the tendency to rule out action in advance was why "so many people regard [Administration officials] as a bunch of beginners. You don't tip your hand before you play...
Skimming down a steep, snow-covered road at Camp David in Maryland's lovely Catoctin Mountains, Jimmy Carter was enjoying the brisk air of an afternoon in the woods when the tip of one of his thin skis caught beneath a crust of rough ice. The President of the United States went down hard. The consequences of this tumble were clearly visible when he returned to snow-paralyzed Washington the next day: an ugly purple bruise the size of a silver dollar over his right eye, several bright red scratches on his cheek, a puffy lip and a slight...
...experiment was designed to see if televising sessions of the House was feasible. Since the program has the backing of Speaker Tip O'Neill, the cameras are expected to become a fixture when the House decides the issue in a few weeks. Last week's picture, which was clear and sharp, went only to monitors in the offices of House members. Under carefully prepared rules, the six remote-controlled cameras focused on the Speaker's rostrum and on the majority and minority tables. They did not roam the aisles or catch members catnapping in their seats...
...commercial networks nor public broadcasters have agreed to pick up the programs once they start. Some 200 cable-TV stations, however, have signed up to make gavel-to-gavel coverage of the House available to their subscribers. Given the chamber's arcane procedures and routine business, not even Tip O'Neill expects to rival Mork as a TV personality, and the ratings of the soaps will not be threatened by the daily travails and dramas in the Big House on the Hill...