Word: coldest
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...reliable sun. For the road march out to Victory Forge, merciless rain the whole six miles - then clear skies again just in time for our arrival. And since the local brass was on hand, of course the nights were mild and the days clear from that moment on. The coldest night of the year, down in the low teens? Our very first night in the woods, back in December. Yet now, for our last and most public act as Basic Trainees, the Big Drill Sergeant in the Sky was hiding us away inside, where hardly any display of marching...
...Cold War was at its coldest, and Keyes the Ambassador--much like Keyes the Candidate--was an aggressive speaker. "His style was confrontational but in a rational manner," says Lichenstein, who also served as an ambassador under Reagan. "This was a period when adversarial relationships were central to our international relations." Between that ambassadorship and the beginning of his career as a presidential long shot, Keyes worked as assistant secretary of state in the Reagan administration. He then twice challenged an incumbent Democrat for a Maryland senate seat--yet another improbable quest. "He had no deep roots anywhere in particular...