Word: umbrellaed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Peace Action Coalition, the organizor of the convention, is an "umbrella" for 60 groups-including the NAACP, SANE, Student Mobilization Committee (SMC), and Women's Strike for Peace. The convention will plan massive demonstrations demanding immediate U. S. withdrawal from Southeast Asia...
Arrayed alongside this unusual trio -and occasionally against it-was Paul Fitzgerald, 33, assigned by the public defender's office and one of its best men. Although he was the unofficial leader of the umbrella defense, Fitzgerald was often undercut by his colleagues as well as the defendants. He usually cross-examined prosecution witnesses first, then had to watch in agony while Hughes and Kanarek clumsily plowed his points under. Kanarek in particular sometimes left a prosecution witness sounding more impressive than when he started. With bitter frustration, Fitzgerald said, "It's like living in a concentration camp...
...wield disproportionate power (in 1959. it had a medium-size population of 47 million and a G.N.P. of $48.6 billion). He recognized earlier than most that the nuclear standoff between the U.S. and Russia afforded other countries considerable room for maneuver. While enjoying the protection of the U.S. nuclear umbrella, he attacked American economic penetration of Europe, and unsuccessfully sought to undermine American business expansion by trying to persuade other countries to reject the dollar in favor of a return to the gold standard"that most precious of metals." He declared that the U.S. commitment to defend Europe against...
...preschooler almost before his society does. Thus Sesame Street is as popular with the well-to-do as it is with the slum dweller. The kids may spark to the astonishing variety of material, but no sketch is without its preordained aim. A game is played under the academic umbrella of "Environment and Multiple Classification." Jet-plane and subway sound effects are listed under "Auditory Discrimination." Big Bird settling an argument is designated "Different Perspectives...
Graham (Stanley Baker) is a rather stuffy British bank manager with the usual accouterments: conservative suit, sensible umbrella, requisite black bowler. Britt (Ursula Andress) has more than the usual accouterments, and she uses them to keep herself in creature comforts like sports cars and chic clothes. Her husband Nick (David Warner) is a jaded aristocrat who lives almost entirely on credit and his finely chiseled profile. He needs Britt, worldly goods and a lot of money, which gives him something in common with Graham, who has a foolproof plan to rob his bank and get all three. Graham enlists Nick...