Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Enforcement of Senate rules regarding franked newsletters supposedly rests with the Ethics Committee. But when asked if committee staff would screen every newsletter, a committee counsel said it was "impossible" and "too much to expect." The attorney said employees of the Senate Service Department--the printing and mailing wing of the Senate bureaucracy--would have to police violations. Connie Sullivan, one of three typists in the Senate composing room, said she already has sent back to some offices newsletter drafts that clearly violated the five-references-per-page rule. But she refused to accept responsibility for the enforcement...
...telegram...with its necessary knock and its flagrant yellow, and its curt phrase of necessary English--I know not which sense was more offended--hit me in the wing and I fell a heaped corpse upon the earth. The sense, if that can be said to have sense which has so little sound, was to discredit the respectability of a house in Fitzroy Square. And there you see me in the mud. Shall I argue that a mind that knows not Gibbon knows not mortality? or shall I affirm that bad English and respectability are twin sisters, dear...
...Battered Wing. The evening's other winners (Lee Grant for Shampoo, George Burns for The Sunshine Boys) were honored for supporting performances in films made snugly within the studio system. Cuckoo, distributed by United Artists, took 14 years to get together and took off on a battered wing and a profane prayer. Movie rights to Ken Kesey's intricate, explosive 1962 novel had been owned by Kirk Douglas for well over a decade. Douglas had played the role of the roustabout McMurphy on Broadway, and wanted to make the movie himself. There were no backers. Prospective producers were...
London was able to shut out Harvard much of the game while picking up its ten-point lead. In the first half, the Englishmen overloaded the right side and a wing went in for the tri untouched...
...Allende's murder on the day of the coup, refuting the junta's assertion that he committed suicide. After taking 30 pages to decide that pointless issue, Rojas offers a rambling chronological account of Allende's downfall: from the military's initial disorientation after his election, through the right-wing campaign of terrorism and economic sabotage, the Pentagon's secret 1972 proposal for his overthrow, the coup itself, and finally the "inferno" of torture and mass murder that followed...