Word: fellowing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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ABANDON HOPE, ALL YE WHO ENTER HERE. That legendary inscription over the gate of hell, as described in Dante's Inferno, appeared last week on a sign that New York Democrat Stephen Solarz posted at a meeting of the House Budget Committee. His point was to warn his fellow liberals that they have no chance of stopping a congressional drive to balance next year's budget, in part by cuts in Government social spending which the liberals find downright hellish...
...Indian Leader Steadham has been traveling for the Census Bureau through Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee to meet with groups of Indians and explain how the forms must be filled out. Coleman Young, Detroit's black mayor, is appearing in TV ads in that city to reassure his fellow citizens that they have nothing to fear from the survey...
With that dramatic outburst, the two-week siege lapsed back into a tense standoff. Negotiating for her fellow terrorists, the woman had just rejected a promising response by the Colombian government to the most sensitive guerrilla demand: the release of 311 accused terrorists, most of them M-19 members, from Colombian jails. The proposal: speeding up the trials and sentencing of more than 200 prisoners now held under military detention. The concession almost certainly would have meant early acquittal for some. Others would have been freed if their sentences matched time already spent in jail. Still other detainees would probably...
...some residents are equally vociferous in support of nuclear power. "Cowards making a big deal over a little accident," is how a burly fellow who identified himself only as Pete described the antinuclear people. Pete reinforced his views by removing his jacket; on his bright red T shirt was a representation of the famous cooling towers and the words "T.M.I. Staff -We Stayed BEHIND . . . to save yours...
...mother married a Jewish businessman in Kansas City, Mo., whose surname the prelate took. He is close to many Protestant and Jewish relatives. During 15 years as a Missouri pastor, theology professor and administrator, the Cardinal-to-be left nothing but friends behind. Monsignor Thomas O'Brien, a fellow executive in the Kansas City diocese, speaks for many: "He always has a calming influence. He never gets angry or upset...