Word: undercutting
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...Mission Bay, "are people who are just upset at things in general and want a change. We think we can work on that part." Law and order, Wallace's theme, will be Nixon's No. 1 topic, and every effort will be made to undercut the Alabamian on his own ground...
Unwanted Role. Never has a price roll-up been so eagerly declared a price rollback-not, anyway, since the Administration joined the steel fight of 1966, which followed much the same script. There was the same hero, U.S. Steel and its chairman, Roger Blough, who undercut by roughly 50% the price increases posted by the same villain, Bethlehem and its chairman, Edmund Martin. And there was the same Lyndon Johnson, who declared himself pleased with the denouement...
...gives Ferrovius a low, gruff voice and makes him a quick-tempered powerhouse, an ogre. Later, when he returns from the arena brandishing a bloody sword, he makes a wonderful effect not by howling, "Cut off this right hand," but by whispering it in self-horror. The director has undercut one of Shaw's points by having Ferrovius toss a coin to the Roman Centurion rather than to the prescribed old beggar...
Died. Major General Ivan Agayants, 57, high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer, a deputy director in the huge State Security Committee (KGB), whose twin specialties were NATO espionage and the dissemination of "black propaganda" to undercut enemy agencies; of undisclosed causes; somewhere in the Soviet Union. As one of three deputies in the KGB's Division I (foreign espionage), Agayants was responsible for the vast Soviet network that was recently the subject of an explosive LIFE article by onetime French Agent Philippe Thyraud de Vosjoli...
...candidates during the period of negotiation before talks on a Viet Nam settlement. Chiding Eugene McCarthy for his demands that Dean Rusk resign, Nixon added: "The one man who can do anything about peace is Lyndon Johnson, and I'm not going to do anything to undercut him." Yet Nixon made it clear that division within the Democratic Party is one of his strongest weapons. Flying on to Michigan, where he conferred with Governor George Romney (but came away without an endorsement), Nixon began a nine-day swing through the Middle West and the Mountain States. En route...