Word: rubicon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ready to address the crowded chamber. After three months' tireless, tenacious work on behalf of the Panama Canal treaties, he was in a mood for Shakespearean rhetoric. "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune," he declared. "The Rubicon of decision on the treaties is now to be crossed...
Leon Spinks crossed a personal Rubicon Wednesday night when he out-pummeled Muhammed Ali for the heavyweight title of the world. While inheriting the by now somewhat tarnished crown of the champ, the 23-year-old recent Olympian also took on the responsibility of defending his title from a passel of potential challengers...
...Attorney General Bell have crossed the Rubicon as far as Marston is concerned, but the new U.S. Attorney "of merit" in Philadelphia had better follow through on the investigations of local politicians now serving in Congress...
...POSSIBLE ADMINISTRATION PRICE GUIDELINES: I think it would be a mistake to set hard and fast numbers, targets. If you do, it just always says to somebody that they have a chance to cross the Rubicon and say 'I did it.' Once you start being specific you will have what begins to constitute a managed economy. I think that you have got to allow the marketplace to do its thing, [but] you may try to jawbone...
Gauzy Nodes. Father Rabbit Hugh Marston Hefner, who started Playboy in 1953, crossed the pubic-hair Rubicon three years ago, but only after goading by Bob Guccione, whose Penthouse first appeared in 1969 full of gauzy nudes with hirsute private parts. Since then, the two antagonists, as well as such panting competitors as Gallery, Genesis, Dude, Club, Game, Cavalier, Adam and Hustler, have been leaving less and less to the imagination. Playboy has expanded its Playmate of the Month spread from two or three pages to as many as nine. Penthouse routinely features male-female and female-female couples. Hefner...