Word: broads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...National Convention in August and 725 more than Kennedy's total. The latest Gallup poll showed that 60% of the Democrats, however reluctantly, preferred Carter to Kennedy as their nominee for President. But when the Senator emerged 54 minutes later from the Oval Office, he declared with a broad smile that the struggle was not over. "I have every intention of continuing in this campaign as a candidate," he said. "I am planning to be the nominee...
When a howling white mob tried to prevent Charlayne Hunter from entering the hitherto segregated University of Georgia in 1961, a broad-shouldered black cleared a path for her by using his 6-ft. 4½-in. body as a battering ram. He was a young (25) law clerk named Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr. Since then Jordan has moderated his tactics, but he has kept on pushing just as forcefully for black rights and equal opportunity. At the same time, he has become, in the words of Mitchell Sviridoff, a vice president of the Ford Foundation, "one of the great...
...order to reassure voters who worry about Reagan's lack of experience in foreign affairs, his aides are trying to create the image of a candidate who is putting himself through a crash course in the subject while assembling a broad collection of experts. Allen, who was also chief foreign policy adviser in the Nixon campaign twelve years ago, before being elbowed aside by Henry Kissinger, has formed a 90-member "foreign policy and defense advisory group." The committee includes Democrats as well as Republicans but is uniformly hard-line on Soviet-American relations...
Though the Pentagon is filling its quota of numbers in the ranks, there is a broad consensus in Congress and the Pentagon that the members of today's armed forces do not match those of the days before the volunteer force. The education level of recruits has been dropping as the services strain to meet recruiting quotas. While 68% of the enlistees without prior military service had high school diplomas in the first half of fiscal 1979, this year only 58% do. Although some combat officers argue persuasively that a ninth-grade dropout may still make a good soldier...
...Gulag Archipelago, The Oak and the Calf and August 1914. He gave instructions that vest-pocket editions of his books be printed in Russian on Bible paper by his Paris publisher for more convenient smuggling to the Soviet Union. At the same time, foreign short-wave stations were regularly broad casting readings from his books to 100 million Soviet listeners. By the time the Kremlin finally arrested Solzhenitsyn, charged him with treason and deported him, the writer had reached his objective: his books and ideas had penetrated the farthest reaches of his country...