Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Early in the evening, a yellow Ford pulled up to the southwest entrance of the White House. Transition boss Edwin Meese and Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt piled out and proceeded to the Situation Room in the basement. They were about to make their nightly call to Ronald Reagan at his Pacific Palisades home and now they felt it necessary to use the most tap-proof telephones in the nation to discuss the most top-secret political topic in town: Who would be members of his new Cabinet...
...perhaps in the age when the John Simon-William Safire-Edwin Newman-style of linguistic Jeremiad is so fashionable in the United States, Americans can draw a little satisfaction from the Oxford dons' attentions. Of course, the Oxford Press embarked on this enterprise because there was money to be made, but the publication of the OAD does give final legitimacy to a language now even more vital and alive than the mother tongue. American English deserves celebration. Oxford, citadel of the Old World, has finally made peace with the new; the phonies probably never will...
...Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor, George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus, and John D. Montgomery, Higgins Professor of Public Administration, signed an advertisement calling for Kim's immediate release, which appeared Sunday in The New York Times...
...long a close associate of the President-elect; Anne Armstrong, Gerald Ford's Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; Justin Dart of Dart & Kraft, Inc., a multinational food and housewares corporation; Nevada's Senator Paul Laxalt, Reagan's key man in Washington; and Edwin Meese, Reagan's closest assistant, who will coordinate the shaping of domestic and foreign policy in the new White House...
...always been ugly," said a Florida prisoner serving a life sentence for murder in a letter to Surgeon Edwin Joy. 'That, added to some psychological problems, made me antisocial. I wanted to socialize, but who wants an ugly guy around?" 'His hope: surgery that would help the convict, 31, improve his self-image and perhaps reform...