Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Suárez listened impassively on the blue leather government bench, Blas Piñar, head of an ultra-right group calling itself Fuerza Nueva (New Force) attacked the reform as a "stupid mask." Another right-wing coalition, the Popular Alliance, threatened that its more than 100 members would abstain from voting unless majority representation replaces the government's proposal that seats in the lower house be allotted by proportional representation. In the end, Alliance leaders and other conservatives were satisfied by a modest technical compromise on voting procedures...
Freshman Daphne Georas says "it's so ultra-preppy rowing for the Radcliffe crew on the Charles River in Cambridge. But it's just something I've always wanted to do, and I love it." Another crew member, Cathy Vance, says "it's a discipline which you try to accomplish; it's an attempt to improve yourself." Another woman says she finds the "physical activity a needed change from the academic life which takes up so much of the rest...
...then arrange for All Nippon to buy the Lockheed Tristar, instead. In order to accomplish this objective, Kotchian undertook to penetrate the very top level of Japanese political decision making. He enlisted the aid of Lockheed's secret agent in Japan, Yoshio Kodama, a leader of the ultra-right wing nationalist faction of Japanese politics, a man with close ties to conservative elements of the Japanese ruling party, an unsavory figure who had served three years in Sugamo prison at the end of World War II as a suspected class A war criminal, an individual with known ties...
Daley didn't become so powerful or win a 730,000 vote plurality by flashing his Ultra-Brite teeth or by claiming virility and experience as his major assets. Daley is strong because the Cook County Democratic organization (more commonly referred to as the "machine") functions so smoothly. But machines break down without fuel, and that fuel is patronage and other material inducements...
...interview last week, Stare called the report "a bunch of nonsense" and labeled Rosenthal a "loudmouthed, ultra-liberal consumer advocate politician who's looking for publicity." Stare defended his fund raising efforts, arguing that the department cannot depend solely on federal monies and that it has "never accepted one penny if there are any kinds of strings attached...