Word: wallops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, Republican Malcolm Wallop was droning on with a seemingly endless series of questions, trying to force acting Deputy Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti into saying something that would embarrass the Carter Administration. Suddenly, Committee Chairman James Eastland took a large cigar out of his mouth, leaned forward in his chair, and interrupted. "What have you got to do with this?" he asked the witness. "Nothing," replied Civiletti...
Undeterred, Wallop, 45, a first-term Senator and a rancher, plunged on with another string of questions. Once more Eastland, 73, took a firm hold on his cigar and asked: "What did you have to do with that?" Again came the witness's reply: "Nothing...
...Wallop has persisted with hundreds of questions. How, he asks, could Civiletti not have been aware of the details of Marston's investigations, particularly the fact that the targets included two Pennsylvania Congressmen, Joshua Eilberg and Daniel Flood? Civiletti said he had never even heard of Flood until recently. Wallop was incredulous. "Senator. I have no idea who three-fourths of the Congressmen are," said Civiletti wryly...
...consider Benjamin R. Civiletti's nomination as Deputy Attorney General last week, the mood was surprisingly low-key. Only a narrow attack was mounted on the ouster of Philadelphia's U.S. Attorney, David Marston, the issue expected to dominate the hearings this week. Said Wyoming Republican Senator Malcolm Wallop: "There was no reason why Marston should not have been fired as a Republican; the only question is the timing...
After last winter's giant wallop, what is in store this year? Official U.S. long-range-weather forecasters are hedging their bets, but others are not. The 1978 edition of the Old Farmer's Almanac, out last week, predicts that the Northeast is in for a particularly "cold and gloomy" winter. Snowfall will be 15 to 20 in. above average. The chill will descend as far south as Florida. A moderate winter is predicted for the rest of the country-but folkloric weathermen in the Midwest cite a number of telltale signs that point in the opposite direction...