Word: ark
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...millions, the down-home Bentonville, Ark., genius was a hero who brought decent merchandise at low prices to areas scorned by more glitzy entrepreneurs. On Wall Street, Walton was a billionaire god who made countless millionaires of others. Last month President Bush awarded the Medal of Freedom, the country's highest civil tribute, to the ailing Walton. "This is not a visit about Sam Walton's wealth," said Bush. "It's about leadership. It's about decency. As he became more and more successful he never turned his back on his roots...
...cold, gloomy late November in 1969. Clinton, a Rhodes scholar from Hot Springs, Ark., fed sixpence and shillings into the meter of the electric fire in order to warm himself. He sat at a rickety table lighted by a gooseneck lamp and worked on a letter about Vietnam, moral principles and the draft...
Wednesday: Raiders of the Lost Ark with Harrison Ford and Karen Allen, at 3, 7:40 p.m. Close Encounters of the Third Kind with Richard Dreyfus, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr and Melinda Dillon...
...Raiders of the Lost Ark...
...sight of young black children entering a previously all-white Little Rock, Ark., school as Army troops stood guard caused millions of Americans to instinctively understand the rightness and the promise of integration. "Bull" Connor's Birmingham cops and dogs signaled the distance still to travel and helped spur the end to de jure segregation. The image of Richard Daley's Chicago cops clubbing peaceful demonstrators in 1968 caused the Democratic Party to reform itself. To hear the words Kent State is to recall how Americans came finally to recognize the lies and dissembling that characterized the Vietnam...