Word: aaron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nobody recalls, Evans was on base when Henry Aaron hit No. 715 in Atlanta. But if he was merely on hand for dramatic events before, he is onstage for them now. With one Royal on and two outs in the taut eighth inning of matching three-hitters, Evans dived for a ball at first base and then beat Willie Wilson in a race to secure Milt Wilcox's 1-0 victory, which won the pennant...
...novels of the mid-1920s, Aaron's Rod (1922), Kangaroo (1923) and The Plumed Serpent (1926), veered toward the worship of supermen, blood-consciousness and dark gods. Only in Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), his last novel, did he return to the subject of men and women in love that he had discarded with Mr. Noon. Then, throwing caution to the winds, he opened that bedroom door completely and apparently for good...
...challenger open to the charge of disloyalty. Mondale was the first to disclaim any such intention. "America has only one President at a time," he said he would tell the Soviet Foreign Minister. "When Mr. Reagan speaks to you on the 28th, he speaks for all Americans." Added David Aaron, Mondale's chief foreign affairs adviser: "He will support the idea of talks, period...
...Barry Carter, a Mondale foreign policy adviser, by a Soviet academic. Over coffee the Soviet, whom Carter had known previously but declines to identify, said that if Mondale would like to have a chat with Gromyko, a meeting could be arranged. The offer was presented to the candidate by Aaron on a campaign flight. Mondale pressed Aaron on whether he thought the Soviet proposal was serious, mulled over the political implications, then made up his mind to pursue it. "I've thought about it for a couple of days and decided this was something I could do that probably...
...more. Put on the Willie Nelson record. Turn up Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring. Woody Guthrie will do fine too, and even John Philip Sousa is permissible. The Zeitgeist has turned zesty. The U.S. is at peace, and between rising employment and fading inflation, the economy is aglow. Americans are feeling more sanguine and comfortable about their country than they have felt in two decades. A rebirth of the American spirit, as Carter dearly hoped five summers ago? It sure feels like it. Even the walkouts called against General Motors last weekend were reluctant and selective (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...