Word: emotionalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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So the nation last week welcomed the freed hostages back from their 444 days of captivity with an orgy of emotion. Yellow ribbons were tied to virtually everything that could not or would not resist: trees, lampposts, TV cameras, trumpets, drums, pretty girls, the hostages' homes and public buildings...
Denied the chance to photograph the moments of reunion, the press had to settle for a morning-after press conference, with the hostages impersonally lined up like the Soviet Presidium. It wasn't the cozy atmosphere that TV interviewers favor. The first question asked at the press conference was...
It was an extraordinary conjuncture of events, compressed almost beyond credibility: within a mere 41 minutes, a presidency began, an ordeal ended, and the nation was swept by a sense of shared emotion and exuberance not felt in years.
But freedom for the hostages, not partisan fingerpointing, was on Carter's mind as he sweated out his final two days in the Oval Office. After napping on a sofa for only 45 minutes Sunday night, he appeared in the White House press room at 4:56 a.m. Monday, his...
Once the hostages were airborne and the new President had been sworn in, live satellite hookups swiveled from Washington to Algiers to West Germany to the home towns of dozens of hostages. When the hostages deplaned in Algiers, each network had an ex-hostage on hand in the studios. At...