Word: credos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battle to build aircraft carriers, the Navy seems to live by the credo "You win some, you try to win some more." In 1983 Congress provided funds to lay the hulls for two new carriers; three years later Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger remained so grateful that he promised not to seek money for more flattops until 1992. But at the urging of former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, Weinberger is already fighting for funds to begin construction of two more carriers. The Secretary's turnabout has legislators fuming, and Congress seems in a mood to repulse the new offensive...
...political prisoners, "a single powerful sound rolling and thundering, shaking the very foundations of the prison walls." It is not a practical agenda but only a vision of a possible future. Technically, it does not mesh well with the generally hopeless tone. But emotionally, it is the underlying credo of the entire novel: a new world will be--must be--born someday in South Africa...
...INSTITUTION IShere forever. Henry Rosovsky's infamous words stand as the administration's credo, with some justification. After 350 years the institution has become as immortal as anything American. It has also become intangible, arrogant and monolithic to the students and alumni who contstitute its greatest asset...
...friendly wake-up call." On the second day, Hartley pasted a HIT SHOW ON BOARD sign on Smith's lapel. By day three, she was fairly doubled over with laughter at the good time being had: "It's such fun waking up with all of these people!" But the credo for The Morning Program came at the end of its fourth show. As part of a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, the cast sang We Shall Overcome...
Macmillan was remarkable among his contemporaries for his great sense of camaraderie, acquired as a soldier during the slaughter on the Somme in World War I. He was fond of quoting a stanza written by British Poet Hilaire Belloc that neatly summed up his credo...