Word: toothlessness
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...late. Dingell and Udall had zealously enlisted the support of leading Congressmen for the toothless Bingham substitute. One argument with powerful appeal to other committee chairmen: if the House can take away our powers today, it can take away yours tomorrow. When the measure came to the House floor last week, New Hampshire Republican James Cleveland decried the arrangements worked out by the old-line chairmen: "They sound to me as if they were agreements between feudal baronies drawn up away from the public eye ... Who are the parties to these treaties? What fiefdoms are they floating around...
...wide, every member well-versed in the words to all the chants, they seemed larger than their numbers, these Libertarians, these Socialist Workers, these International Socialists Another 5 per cent of the crowd is relatively unclassifiable--including the smiling, paunchy gays holding the "Piss on the Pentagon" banner, the toothless fellow dressed up as Uncle Sam advising men to sign up for "Husband's Lib." The rest, a melange, college students for the most part, mixed with a few veterans of other older movements. Past the J. Edgar Hoover Building, home of the FBI, past the Treasury Department, past...
...parlayed her soignée Paris boīte into a chain of expensive nightclubs reaching to New York and eight other cities. Three years ago, Regine barred Dewi from the Paris motherhouse for slapping another customer. Dewi sued in court, and now she has won a clear, if toothless, decision: the joint, ruled a French judge, is a public place, and Dewi may not be barred from it. Regine was ordered to pay one franc (250) in token damages. "I declared war and I won," crowed Dewi. "A futile and idiotic affair," retaliated Regine. "One franc will not take...
...small menu makes for a tidy kitchen. One locker holds ground beef, another buns. And one chef, smiling, toothless Lester, is in charge of chili. "They only allow us to make it one way," Lester said as he stirred his simmering pots...
...month. The Patriotic Front put forth a proposed constitution that would not reserve any seats for whites in the 100-member Parliament (they now control 28). Britain's Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, presented an alternative that would guarantee the whites one-third membership in a toothless Senate and an unspecified number of seats in the lower house-but not enough to block legislation or constitutional amendments. Displeased by both plans, Muzorewa threatened to walk out. But sources in his delegation said that the bishop's tantrum was no more than a threat aimed at holding together his divided...