Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Britain but Western civilization itself. And in doing so, he earned for himself the tribute he paid to the fighters of the Royal Air Force in 1940: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." --John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona...
...problem of lack of intellect or discipline--despite graduating fifth from the bottom of his Annapolis class with a bushel of demerits--but rather of temper and temperament. The question exploded last week in newspaper stories, most notably a blazing Sunday editorial in his hometown paper, the Arizona Republic, damning McCain as a bully, sarcastic and insulting. His personal story, in this view, becomes his burden, with the suggestion that the fighting spirit that allowed him to resist his North Vietnamese captors has left him muscle-bound, not quite nimble enough to cajole and convince and compromise in complicated times...
...given up majority ownership in Forbes, Inc. To avoid being labeled negative, he's going pre-emptively nice. "I like Bush personally. I would consider him for Vice President. His brother, too." If Forbes peels off conservative votes, it increases the chances of a McCain nomination. The Senator from Arizona should go to Iowa and campaign for Forbes...
While both believe that Vice President Al Gore '69 and Texas Gov. George W. Bush are poised to win their parties' nominations over former New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley and Arizona's John McCain, respectively, both speakers maintained that anything is possible...
Ethel B. Branch '01, whose mother is Navajo and whose father is part Spanish-Mexican, part Basque and part French, went to an all Native-American grade school in Arizona...