Word: titular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case, I know that Mrs. DuBois's appearance was sponsored by the Afro-American Studies Department in honor of W.E.B. DuBois-titular head of the department, and of the projected Research Institute. As such, certain reported remarks on the squalid episode in Sanders Theatre seem a trifle disingenuous. It is surely not enough to merely state that "no one was authorized to say whites were excluded"-for authorized or not, someone evidently said so and succeeded in turning away the Harvard community from what ought to have been a memorable occasion. What is clearly needed is a complete dissociation...
A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who has just turned 76, last week propounded an unexpected proposition at a celebratory steak-and-martini luncheon with a group of Washington newsmen. "We find more and more that strikes really don't settle a thing," said the titular head of the American labor movement. "Where you have a well-established industry and a well-established union, you're getting to the point where a strike doesn't make sense." By Meany's reckoning, the right formula in such circumstances is for both sides to submit all unresolved issues...
...Lingle Mungo is the tongue-twisting title of a litany of 38 baseball players whose names, recited in unison to a slightly Latin beat, are alleged to evoke peals of campy hilarity. Everyone from Virgil Trucks to Johnny Kucks is lauded by Singer Dave Frishberg. Mungo, the titular hero of the piece, was a 1930s Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher who now spends most of his time fishing and golfing in Pageland, S.C. "I think it's great," he says. "It's the first publicity I've had since I retired...
...James Thompson paid a call on the governor of Thailand's Nong Khai province. "Come upstairs," said the governor. "I have a Lao prince you might like to meet." The governor's guest was Prince Souphanouvong, then a leader of the embryo Laotian independence movement and now titular head of the pro-Communist Pathet Lao. Souphanouvong asked Thompson for pledges of U.S. support against the French colonialists who were then re-establishing their control over Laos. Their talk was, almost certainly, the first contact between American officials and independence-minded Laotians...