Word: ardently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most ardent of sports fans, but when my roommate's lacrosse learn defeated Northwestern to vie for the NCAA semi-finals at Amberst. I was anxious to read the write-up Quickly thumbing through the sports section of-Thursday's Crimson. I was surprised to find that instead of top-of-the-page glory, the laxwomen were relegated to a small, inconspicuous column beneath a great picture of men's lacrosse. Tim Pendergast and a lengthy tale of co-captain comments. "I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia" would rather be given due respect and placement. Too often women's sports...
DIED. Suzanne La Follette, 89, conservative journalist and founding editor of several magazines, including National Review; in Menlo Park, Calif. An early, ardent feminist, she revived the radical magazine the Freeman in 1930. Gradually departing from leftism, she revived the Freeman yet again in 1950, this time as the voice of the "nontotalitarian right." "I haven't moved," she once said of her views. "The world has moved to the left...
...however, the party rejected these ardent suitors and opted to go west. Meeting in Washington last week, the Democrats tapped San Francisco as the setting for their 1984 national convention. "We're taking the election right into Ronald Reagan's backyard," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Charles Manatt, a Los Angeles lawyer who appointed the 27 members of the committee and who pushed hard to steer the convention into his home state. Said jubilant San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein: "Whoopee...
...former banker should head the Federal Reserve, which oversees the nation's banks. But then he explained, "Actually, no one ever offered me the job." Also mentioned, but only as long shots: Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, 64, and Treasury Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs Beryl Sprinkel, 59, an ardent monetarist...
...Administration has consistently attempted to blunt the intentions of some protection-minded members of Congress concerned with high levels of domestic unemployment. The President firmly believes that, as he has put it, "free trade serves the cause of economic progress and the cause of world peace." But even an ardent free-marketeer can make exceptions. Last week Reagan did, in a way that brought surprise and outrage from Japanese officials. Slapping an elevenfold increase on American tariffs for, of all things, imported heavyweight motorcycles, Reagan declared in an Executive memorandum that the action was "consistent with our national economic interests...