Word: boing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right flanks, monopolizing the coveted middle ground. With the Democrats in disarray, no serious rival for the presidency has emerged. Reagan may make a try for the Republican nomination, but Ford operatives are adroitly heading him off. The President picked three notable conservatives to manage his campaign: Howard ("Bo") Callaway, former Secretary of the Army; David Packard, who served as Under Secretary of Defense; and Dean Burch, a onetime adviser to Barry Goldwater and past chairman of the Federal Communications Commission...
...Team. The Ford campaign team is taking public steps to counter the Reagan threat. Howard H. ("Bo") Callaway, the shirtsleeved director of Ford's campaign and former Secretary of the Army under Nixon, told reporters bluntly that Ford is seeking the nomination solely on his own and distinctly apart from his Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller. "The President appointed Rockefeller, he's proud of Rockefeller-but it's not a team," Callaway said. He noted that "a lot of Reagan people are not supporters of Rockefeller," and he did not want to discourage them from backing Ford. Rocky...
...United States continued to support him as he used it to break up and destroy competing religious-political sects, disband traditional village councils, and force peasants to leave their homes and enter stockades. Meanwhile, the Viet Minh continued to work in the villages in small groups called Chi bo or "party branches," implementing land reforms, limiting taxation, and continuing to win support from rural farmers...
...typical 20th century urban sprawl (see map). If he wished, he could stop for a grinder at Mamma Lisa's Pizza House, a beer at Moriarty's Bar, a pound of chopped chicken liver at Levine's Kosher Meat Market or lunch at the China Bo Restaurant. He could wash his horse blanket at Launderland or even trade in his steed for something with more horsepower at any of half a dozen automobile dealerships along the way. But Di Carlo will be spurred on by a schedule that permits no dallying, not even at the Paul Revere...
...Hill, whose avocation is flying antique airplanes, brings to it. He is obviously paying tribute to a spirit of gallantry that he believes in and admires. Fortunately, he has communicated his earnestness to Writer Goldman, whose humor is tempered by uncharacteristic restraint, and to an excellent cast, among whom Bo Brundin as Kessler stands out. As for Redford, this is his best work since Downhill Racer. Appealingly awkward when trying to express his feeling for flying, he is in his most dashingly self-destructive mode when demonstrating the heights to which his passion drives him. All in all, The Great...