Word: current
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senator said that he dived several times in an attempt to rescue her but the current was too strong. Giving up, he walked more than a mile back to the cottage and told two old friends, Joseph Gargan and Paul Markham, about the accident. All three drove back to the bridge in another car. Gargan and Markham dived unsuccessfully after Kopechne and then drove Kennedy to the harbor...
...drive has already assumed the proportions of its campaign in 1977 and early 1978 against the proposed deployment of the neutron warhead. Under withering pressure from leftists and peace activists, Western Europeans resisted the idea, and President Carter eventually decided to abandon it. The stakes are higher in the current proposal: to modernize NATO's theater nuclear forces with the deployment of 572 mobile, intermediate-range cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western European countries, as a counterforce to the more than 100 advanced multiwarhead SS-20 missiles already stationed in the western Soviet Union...
...current response to all the chug-a-lugging on campus has been a flurry of pamphlets on how to fight alcohol abuse and a parade of new college information and counseling centers. Such centers are becoming almost as familiar on campus as homecoming games and fraternity parties-the occasions that have always called forth prodigious assaults on the bottle. The dedicated drinkers, though, generally quaff quietly off campus, making the rounds of such traditional hangouts as The Pub on State Street in Madison, Wis., or the Goose's Nest on Notre Dame Avenue in South Bend, Ind., or Quantrill...
...also mysterious, pervasive and, in the cold eyes of Western policymakers, dangerous and disruptive to current at tempts to combat inflation. Supermoney is the immense and swift-moving pool of currencies deposited in banks outside their home countries- and thus out of the control of any government. No body knows the total, but estimates run to $750 billion in ''offshore'' dollars and $250 billion in German marks and other, mostly European, money...
Maybe Alexander Korda was careless about ordering his affairs because he had witnessed so many of the century's upheavals. Maybe it was the strong under current of melancholy in his temperament that caused him to regard all permanencies as delusions. Whatever. Michael Korda 's title is apt, and he has fashioned from his uncle's life, and from his own struggle not to become a pale copy of him, a book that is rather like one of his uncle's historical films-warm, well structured, humorous, a little larger and more roman tic than life...