Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brandt's return from political oblivion is remarkable considering how far he had fallen. Seven years ago he resigned as Chancellor when it was revealed that one of his most trusted aides was an East German spy. In 1978, weakened by excess weight and a drinking problem, he suffered a ravaging heart attack that, in his own words, brought him "to the border between life and death." The next year Brandt announced his intention to divorce his wife of 31 years. With his drinking under control, today Brandt's buoyant step and year-round tan symbolize the dramatic...
...small sign of Floridians' growing anger about the 150,000 Cuban and Haitian refugees who have beached on their state's shores since the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Although the care of undocumented aliens from the Caribbean is a federal responsibility, the burden of supporting them has fallen mostly on Florida, and Governor Robert Graham has had enough of it. He is suing the Federal Government for failure to curtail immigration into South Florida. Says he: "The status quo is intolerable...
When Truman succeeded F.D.R., he said that he felt as if "two planets and the whole constellation" had fallen on him. Eisenhower was a good bit more relaxed when he took over from Truman: "My first day at the President's desk. Plenty of worries and difficult problems. But such has been my portion for a long time-the result is that this just seems like a continuation of all I've been doing since July 1941-even before that...
...philosophy that guided the development of the M-l has ruled the Pentagon since the end of World War II. In part, it reflects the Pentagon emphasis on preparing for a war of massed firepower along conventional front lines in Europe. More important, military reformers charge, the Pentagon has fallen into a "goldplated mousetrap" of always holding out for the final, supremely costly "last 10%" in technology that might give a weapon an unconquerable edge in battle. Even some military officers agree with this criticism. Says retiring Major General Volney Warner, chief of U.S. Readiness Command: "We have been captives...
...when my friends and I were only approximately of legal age, we patronized an ancient bar in New York City's Yorkville neighborhood--an establishment that was subsequently turned into a singles bar frequented by professional hockey players. Tended by a genial Irish giant named Ned, the bar had fallen on difficult times and was forced to accept the whiskey-sour-or-rum-and-coke indignities of my friends and me. And like all good neighborhood bars, the Shamrock had its share of local bums who always depended on Ned and his colleagues for a nightly snort...