Word: aptness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...church buses to get the tour under way-90 minutes late. But one bus broke down and limped onto a goat farm near the town of Grand Prairie; reporters and camera crews had to hire a fleet of taxis to chase after the candidate. All of which seemed apt for a major campaign that has generated more excitement with less money and organization than any other in memory. In a self-satisfied moment, Jackson put it this way: "If Hart or Mondale had my budget, they could not compete. And if I had their budgets, they could not compete...
Riding into this prickly cactus patch are Presidential Contenders Walter Mondale, Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson, for whom the May 5 caucuses loom as a High Noon. Actually, a more apt Texas metaphor for Hart might be the Alamo. Reeling from his defeats in Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania and, last week, Missouri, he vowed to start winning again in the West. A bad loss in the Lone Star State could start the vultures circling. For Jackson, the state's large Hispanic vote tests his ability to make his "rainbow coalition" a bit less monochromatic than it has been...
Roller-coaster ride, shooting the rapids, demolition derby-almost any metaphor involving gut-churning ups and downs or collisions is apt. Candidates seem to think the electorate wants to see them endure incredible campaign pressures. Yet it is unclear whether surviving such a regimen is a measure of presidential mettle. Henkel, new to national politics, thinks not. "The Democratic Party has to face up to the punishment this process inflicts on its people," he says. "These four or five months of extremely intense activity are not the best test of a candidate's ability." Hart, however, has no real...
...then not focus debate in the March 8 meeting on the mining issue, which must have been in his newspaper by then? Why, further, has Senator Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) resigned in protest at not having been told about the mining? Such a resignation hardly seems an apt way to protest failure on the part of a subsidiary body to conform to rules set for it. But strangest of all, don't the House and Senate intelligence committees share information? It seems patently ludicrous that Senator Goldwater should not have known something about the mining if the House knew...
...past, any scandal reflecting on a newspaper might have been acknowledged briefly, if at all, back among the truss ads. But the best papers have learned from Watergate a lesson that officeholders in government are still learning: any attempt to cover up or to play down a scandal is apt to worsen...