Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even though he has the nomination knocked, Carter expects to visit as many state delegations as he can to ensure their support. His aides are even planning the usual elaborate communications network to keep in touch with delegations as voting begins on the convention floor in Madison Square Garden. Press Secretary Jody Powell laughingly explained: "This is what everybody traditionally does at conventions-so we want...
...Elliott Gould) are bumptious turn-of-the-century vaudevillians with more talent for stealing the customers' wallets than for stealing the show. Offstage they drink out of the finger bowls at posh restaurants, swat each other with their hats a la Laurel and Hardy and cause everything they touch to blow up in their faces, from a bottle of champagne to a vial of nitroglycerin. "They're not oafs," someone says of them. "They would require practice to become oafs...
...favor firm resistance to encroachments-to being taxed without consent." He also conjectures that his ancestors would not want to hold political office today because it is a full-time occupation. "The problem with Congress is that it's run by professional politicians who are out of touch with the country. They are not like the citizen legislators the country had in the beginning...
...dance to rock, but not to the jazz of that period; jazz did evoke a certain feeling, but it was hard to pinpoint it in those dense sound clusters and complex rhythms. And so people walked away with a feeling, but not with a remembrance. They had nothing to touch...
...civil rights but its first fully worked out constitution. The powerful lower house is to be elected annually by the state's property owners, who will also choose senators for a four-year term. Both houses will elect a Governor of strictly limited power. As a finishing touch, just before the delegates adjourned last week, they approved a new state seal-a female figure representing Virtue and Courage, armed with a spear, standing with one foot on the corpse of Tyranny...