Word: banishing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last month in Plains, he listened to 16 of them for five hours straight?with one five-minute bathroom break. Only water was served. "Before we won, we served Cokes," said Carter, the closest he came to humor. Reports one participant, Economist Arthur Okun: "He is totally able to banish anything, any mortal concerns, like a crick in the backside or thirst or hunger or anything else." Adds Economist Walter Heller: "We call him 'Iron Pants...
These efforts to banish the reality of power were aborted by our involvement in two world wars...
...must now conduct diplomacy with subtlety, flexibility, persistence and imagination. We must fuse our great national assets of idealism and realism, our moral convictions and our pragmatic bent. We can no longer impose our own solutions; yet our action or inaction will influence events, often decisively. We cannot banish power from international affairs, but we can use our vast power wisely and firmly to deter aggression and encourage restraint and negotiation. We can help construct a wider community of interest among all nations. We must continue to stand for freedom in the world...
Give the author credit though. She has written a truly haunted story in which agony gives gloss a run for the money. The Furies in her suburb are real, even if she seems to banish them with a spray of Airwick...
Finally, it should be remembered that citizens can hardly expect official honesty and high-mindedness if the People attempt to banish morality from government in the name of libertarianism. Laws concerning abortion are merely an effort towards reconciling public and private interests and are therefore a fair and necessary subject for open political debate. Blair Axel...