Word: blur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conflicts of the past decade overlap: Christian against Muslim, Christian against Christian, Muslim against Muslim, Syrian against Israeli, sometimes one neighborhood block against the next. Memories blur. Was that building ravaged during February's battle for West Beirut or during one of last summer's ceasefires...
...less tumultuous than the Senate because less is at stake. Republicans would have to make extraordinary gains to challenge the majority control Democrats have held in the House for 28 years. And in House races, where issues are generally less important than personality factors, nationwide trends tend to blur in significance. Still, insiders who talk about the races make a few basic points...
Savee-H Grant Blur 6-9.9-24. NH Bruce Gilles...
...professorial calm have piqued the interest of a new generation of college students who were children when the former presidential candidate led his party against the Viet Nam War in 1972. To the mainstream of voters, however, he appears quaint, quixotic and too liberal. Reubin Askew remains a blur, with low name recognition even among recent residents of his home state, Florida. Only Jesse Jackson, irrepressible and sometimes outrageous, seems to be gaining converts in his long-shot crusade. But while Jackson has shown that a black can be a potent force in the primaries, he seems more...
...swing. But at every stop, the journalists are faced with a candidate's standard speech, the same jokes, the same badinage, and must try to turn them into news. As ABC Correspondent Brit Hume joshed to Mondale's press secretary Maxine Isaacs after a blur of indistinguishable events: "We regulars have had our excitement threshold lowered." Like the White House beat, to which it is often a steppingstone, campaign coverage is one of the most coveted and also one of the most confining of assignments. Reporters frequently join the candidate at dawn and may touch down in three...