Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps the most disturbing element of last week's flap is that energy has been dissipated, in petty feuds over rank and prerogative, that might more usefully have gone into the formulation of foreign policy. Nothing dramatic has gone wrong, but time has been wasted by a group that tends to dawdle too much over procedure...
...undesired marriage, will drastically alter her life forever. For poorer women or-in these times of high inflation-many middle-class women, the burden of an extra child is something they and their entire family may well find destructive. The right to seek an abortion gives women an element of freedom and control over their lives that men have always had. Says NOW'S Eleanor Smeal of those in Washington who would usurp this freedom: "They are getting Government off the backs of Big Business and putting it into the lives of women...
Crimson: In addition to the manpower element, some advisers have said reinstituting the draft might serve as a deterrent...
...previous wars. And a lot of our European friends and allies, when we push them to support defense efforts more, continually tell us that they have conscription and we don't and we should do it. But the president remains very strongly opposed to the compulsive element in the draft and for that reason we hope to avoid it just as long as we can. If we see that we aren't getting enough people then we would have to think about some other means of doing it. But at the moment, we think...the number of volunteers seems...
Then too there is the element of pure meanness in such laughter, both the meanness of enjoyment in watching an embarrassed misspeaker's eyes roll upward as if in prayer -his hue turn magenta, his hands like homing larks fluttering to his mouth-and the mean joy of discovering his hidden base motives and critical intent. At the 1980 Democratic National Convention, Jimmy Carter took a lot of heat for referring to Hubert Humphrey as Hubert Horatio Hornblower because it was instantly recognized that Carter thought Humphrey a windbag. David Hartman of Good Morning America left little doubt about...