Word: bedrocked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's a tough situation ahead of us," admits one Republican National Committee strategist, Ceci Cole. "Our incumbents are vulnerable and half of the Democratic incumbents are from bedrock Democratic states...
...victory in 1980. Reagan's relative lack of support among women, Blacks and labor unions could mean the loss of large industrial states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Illinois, which Reagan was able to carry narrowly in 1980. This would in turn increase the pressure on Reagan to hold his bedrock conservative constituencies in the South and the West...
...before-and-after photographs, palpably depicting the burdens of the Oval Office: rosy, beaming President-elect vs. haggard, wan incumbent. But Reagan, now the oldest President in history, seems to have grown more robust since his Inauguration. After three years his optimism appears undimmed, his faith in bedrock conservative notions unshaken. "His perspective is unusual," explains one White House aide of the boss's remarkable equanimity. "Someone 35 years old sees hills and valleys every day, but the President just sees dips in the road. He rides above...
...Nineteen Eighty-Four have long been embraced by the right as anti-revolutionary tracts. Yet such terms shift with time; what was left 20 years ago could be mainstream now and reactionary by 2001, or vice versa. Orwell's work has proved itself, with some exceptions, grounded on bedrock...
...slab on a central support, like a tray on a waiter's fingers. He roofed the building with light copper sheathing, made the centre of gravity low as a ship's. And like a ship, the Imperial was made to float. Instead of sinking deep piers to bedrock, the architect rested his building on hundreds of slender, pointed 8-ft. piles, distributing the weight evenly...