Word: blacklist
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...blacklist with cachet...
Among the USIA 84 was Gary Hart, the only presidential contender to make the list. Also singled out were Ralph Nader, Coretta Scott King and Betty Friedan, who cheerfully remarked that "it certainly is a distinguished blacklist to be on." TV news was represented by CBS's Walter Cronkite, whose only apparent threat to Reagan is in surpassing him in on-the-air avuncularity, and ABC's David Brinkley, who pronounced himself "delighted." Print journalists included the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee, New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, the Atlantic's James Fallows and TIME International...
...talking tough on the disputed issue of the Soviet natural gas pipeline, but the recent "softening" of American boycott measures against U.S. subsidiaries involved in the pipeline deal is a significant and long-overdue muffling of the President's previously intractable stance. Nevertheless, the downscaling of the President's blacklist is too little too late. Reagan must still go a long way in rethinking the pipeline...
...moralistic minority. On March 10, 1823, "A large shower bath belonging to Dorr [a "Black"] was taken from the fourth story of Stoughton, and having been filled with wood, etc. was burnt at midnight in the middle of the College Yard in commemoration of the second anniversary of the Blacklist...
...senior, said Mr. Test approached him after the exam, waving his test form and telling him he had to fill in his name and couldn't cancel his score on the verbal section. Reinheimer said he ripped up his exam and then panicked as Mr. Test allegedly threatened to blacklist him with the Educational Testing Service...