Word: almost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Almost two-thirds agreed with Carter's own analysis that America faces a crisis of confidence. But unlike the President, who blamed the aftereffects on Viet Nam, Watergate and the selfish narcissism of the American people, those polled pointed to more immediate problems -inflation and energy shortages...
...fear of the Government. Connally has the earthiness of a backland tenant farmer's son and the urbanity of a successful international financier. He is clever enough to be self-deprecating at times, but he radiates such an enormous sense of self-confidence and self-mastery as to seem almost invulnerable. Like it or not, the brand of a unique personality is there...
...morality campaign of 1976, a Connally candidacy would have been almost unthinkable. But the pendulum of American political preferences seems always swinging, moving from a fear of an imperial leader to a fear of a weak one, from a desire for a moral President to a desire for a shrewd horse trader. So, as Johnson and Nixon begat Carter, now Carter could just conceivably beget John Connaly, if the horse-trading rancher can satisfy skeptical Americans that his steed is white and he will never come home with a spavined and one-eyed...
...theft is involved. Reports of criminal misuse of funds are almost nonexistent. What is at stake is the robbing of Peter to pay Paul, all within an academic context. Colleges are valuable, expensive and above all nonprofit institutions. Federal grants given for research have often been regarded as a general fund that can justifiably be used for allied but unauthorized expenses. University administrators, in fact, say that what is needed now, given the economic pinch, is more accounting flexibility rather than less...
...drank himself to distraction. Yet he also lived long enough to become the somewhat puzzled darling of academics and film historians. Samuel Beckett sought him out and wrote a screenplay, Film (1964), in which Keaton starred. When the two met for the first time, they discovered that they had almost nothing to talk about...