Word: trent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Knicks signed Minnesota guard Trent Tucker, their first-round draft choice, yesterday...
...very likely the last real alternative to having no budget at all. This fear of total failure-and of continued castigation by Reagan as the cause of all economic woes-was the key to the congressional vote. "The members perceived that this could be it," said Mississippi Republican Trent Lott. "There was a feeling that we had to pass a budget today." Added Liberal Democrat James Shannon of Massachusetts: "We were more scared of looking like we were in disarray than anything else...
Thus was born the first clerihew, the brainchild of Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956). Bentley went on to write detective novels, including Trent's Last Case (1912), and to compose editorials for the Daily Telegraph. But his fame was ensured by those dotty four-line biographies that kept punctuating his otherwise respectable existence. He lived to see his middle name enshrined in the Oxford English Dictionary...
...civil rights legislation of the 1960s and which had been sanctioned by three previous Administrations. The case before the Supreme Court would be irrelevant if the Government removed its support of the IRS policy. This is what was asked of Reagan in an Oct. 30 letter from Republican Congressman Trent Lott of Mississippi, who contended that the IRS practice was unconstitutional. When a summary of Lott's letter came to the President, he wrote in the margin, "I think we should" (make the policy change). That informal O.K. finally produced the Jan. 8 announcement...
...main lesson of the long, chaotic weekend was that the budgetmaking machinery of the Government had broken down. "The process stinks," said House Republican Whip Trent Lott of Mississippi. House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois derided the deadline jockeying as a "flimflam." The experience, said Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, was a "political nightmare...