Word: casting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Secretary of State received a rousing send-off for his maiden diplomatic mission when the Senate, after less than four hours of hearings, confirmed his appointment, 94 to 2. Even the two nays (by Republican Conservatives Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire) were cast not in disapproval of Muskie but as protests against Carter's foreign policy. One Senator followed another in praising Muskie and he, in turn, brought them to their feet with an emotional farewell to the chamber in which he had served for the past 22 years. Said Muskie: "I look...
...cast leaves nothing to be desired, and Playwright Williams is a prose poet with a lavish sense of humor and such musically evocative imagery that one may leave the theater with the lines of When It's Sleepy Time Down South running through one's mind...
...season's seven-assist game against Yale followed by a six-goal outburst to help the laxmen drub UNH, served as reminders that the ambidextrous middie can do it all. Despite a serious hand injury which forced him to miss five games and finish his junior season in a cast, Predun now ranks number two on the Crimson's all-time scoring list with...
...penchant for cocktails, Muskie stood in front of the newspaper office in a snowstorm to denounce Publisher William Loeb: "That man doesn't walk, he crawls." The Senator choked up and tears rolled down his cheeks. He claimed he was not weeping, but the damage was done. "It cast a pall over the remainder of our effort," Muskie said later. "We could never quite get over it." He won the New Hampshire primary, but the press decreed that he had not done well enough; ultimately he lost the nomination to George McGovern...
...thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o 'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action." -Hamlet...