Word: cold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, this is a double-edged sword--the "Bloom County" crew of politically-aware funny animals is currently running on air. After four years, has Watterson's device--a boy's ability to alter his cartoon reality quickly--also gone cold...
...team was inconsistent last season--when thepitchers were on, the offense went cold; when theoffense got hot, the pitchers didn't have have it,McConaghy said. The Crimson is confident that itcan avoid such letdowns this season...
...fooled by the warm weather that has graced Cambridge this week. It is still cold down on the Charles River...
Lyndon Johnson, as Senate majority leader and early on as President, could polish off a dozen or so Scotch-and-sodas in an afternoon and evening. He claimed they were half strength. He never lost control, just looked stunned. He quit cold turkey in the White House, switching to Fresca and root beer. For whatever reason, his presidency went downhill thereafter. White House abstinence was tried by Rutherford Hayes, Calvin Coolidge and Jimmy Carter. Results were dismal...
Duberman, a professor of history at Lehman College in New York City, is a scrupulous biographer. But he seems an ingenuous historian. In his view, Robeson became the target of "Cold War hysteria," and the sad outcome of a brilliant career was, in essence, "America's tragedy." But in fact, the wound was self-inflicted. The champion of minorities and laborers turned out to be oddly forgiving about crimes against humanity -- provided that they were committed in the Workers' Paradise. To him, Stalin's infamous purges were a $ proper way to deal with "counter-revolutionary assassins." The pact between...