Word: erful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kate's story is hardly one of sexual recidivism; she remains admirably independent throughout her crisis. Near the end, she concludes: "Men and women can nev er be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace." Kate's problem transcends sex: "What on earth should one do next?" To her credit, Kate finds no single slogan or ideology a sufficient guide through that complex maze...
...next day, after being referred to by House Speaker Tip O'Neill as "Jimmy Roosev ... er ... Jimmy Carter," the President warned that security cannot be attained by "nostalgic or wishful thinking or by bravado." He got a big hand when he pledged: "If a nuclear arms race should be forced upon us, we will compete and compete successfully...
...Vance, 39, a former Secret Service agent who heads an executive security service. Betty has been helping Susan at the Vances' Fairfax, Va., home, where her second grandchild sleeps in a wicker heirloom. Its first occupant, Gerald R. Ford, plans to meet the young lady at her inaugural -er, christening...
...President, his delivery lessened the impact of his speech; it read better than he read it. Unfortunately, the line that may be longest remembered was a slip of the tongue. Citing some of his party's illustrious members of the past, he named "Hubert Horatio Hornblower ... er ... Humphrey." Carter also went on too long. Toward the end of his 51-min. speech, some delegates were yawning and checking their watches...
...er the far times, when many a subject land Look 'd to the winged Lion's marble piles...