Word: breds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like so many men with boundless power, personality and ego, Franklin D. Roosevelt had an eye for women. Not just any women, but tall, intelligent and impeccably well-bred travelers in his own social circles. He married his patrician cousin Eleanor in 1905, kept his dining tables and drawing rooms decorated with bright young women from Chestnut Hill and Tuxedo Park, and from 1913 until the day he died in 1945 carried on a secret but by now much-publicized affair with Lucy Mercer, a daughter of Maryland gentry and for a time Eleanor's personal secretary...
Cuba has contributed a number of inventions to the progress of warfare and repression. The Spaniards bred the slavehunting dogs, "Cuban hounds", that were exported to the United States. Spanish generals invented the system of concentrating a rural population in garrisons and declaring anyone outside them a rebel that the United States would employ in Vietnam under the name of "strategic hamlets" policy. Cuban revolutionaries refined the techniques of urban terrorism as far back...
...people, dragging the nation through war and Watergate, CIA and FBI abuses and, to insult the injured, has consistently lied about it. Vanderbilt University Chancellor Alexander Heard puts it succinctly: "Washington is simply shorthand for the unsuccessful part of our past." Now, says Lawyer Charles Morgan Jr., an Alabama-bred civil libertarian, "any good outsider can beat the establishment of elitists whose interest is to keep the people in the dark...
...outcast in search of attention, affection and "a home," as he puts it, he begins frequenting the quarters of three technical sergeants, two white, one black. They are men of caste status in an army hutment, an odd lot indeed. Richie (Peter Evans) is an avowed homosexual. The college-bred Billy (Paul Rudd) may be a latent homosexual, but won't admit it. And Roger is a black who has bridged the racial gap through competence and an equable temper...
...started with only a few mares, so it's been a very creative process which she has worked hard at," Gerry says. "When it comes through that way you know you've bred a champion from the very beginning...