Word: tip
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...crackdown in Cape Town and Soweto was harsh even by South African standards. But the ruling white "tribe," the Afrikaners, has long been preoccupied with the problems of surviving at the tip of a hostile continent, and today it is more nervous than ever. The neighboring state of Rhodesia has become black-ruled Zimbabwe, and the South African-administered territory of Namibia (South West Africa) is in transition toward some form of black majority rule. Gerrit Viljoen, 53, who is both head of the Broederbond, the powerful and secretive society of ranking Afrikanerdom, and Pretoria's administrator general...
...Planetarium, fartsovshchiki (black marketeers) have set up an underground supermarket, dealing in everything from gin to chewing gum, jeans and Western pop records. One of the hottest selling items in any market is information. Some hustlers charge one or two rubles for "a sentence." The mysterious sentence: a valuable tip-off that an item in short supply will be delivered to a certain shop the following...
...tactical situation worse two weeks ago by denouncing a laboriously worked-out congressional compromise on the budget, a move that many Congressmen regarded as interference with their function. The mood of the House turned angry, and the gas tax provided a splendid target for that anger. House Speaker Tip O'Neill blocked all action on the bill as long as he could, but the size of the vote showed how overwhelmingly outnumbered...
Carter's objection got a quick response from House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill, who had reluctantly endorsed the committee compromise and then joined in opposing it. "I kind of vacillated a bit myself," he said. New York's hawkish Democrat Samuel Stratton, on the other hand, summoned the Joint Chiefs of Staff to testify before his House Armed Services Subcommittee on Investigations on Thursday morning, just before the scheduled floor vote. The chiefs usually support a President's budget recommendations publicly, whatever their private reservations. But this time they agreed -not very reluctantly-that...
...ethnics took over. From 1900-1930, Velucci insists, the Irish "had complete control of city hall, lock, stock and barrel. They had control of the school department, they had the mayor and the city council. There were Irish teachers being appointed, and cops and firemen and city laborers. Tip O'Neill's father was sewer commissioner, a friend of his ran the water department." Hard on the heels of the Irish, the Portuguese, the Italians and the French reached the far shore of the Charles. "Between them, they took all the power away from the silk-stocking gang," Vellucci says...