Word: fellow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...image as a dashing, reform-minded renegade could establish him as a folk hero to rival the President. "That young man should be shot," says David Steinberg, a leading U.S. authority on the Philippines. "Cory can't leave that decision to the Almighty." Some of her fellow citizens were wishing she would adopt a less otherworldly policy for all her decisions...
Over the next five years, however, Rault managed to stave off five dates with Louisiana's electric chair. On death row he re-emerged as an exemplary citizen, teaching fellow inmates to read and write. With an old typewriter perched on his bunk, he batted out articles for prison ministries and corresponded with dozens of other prisoners who had heard his writings on Christian radio broadcasts...
Others were. The owlish Georgian had been viewed, especially by fellow Southerners who are helping to organize the region's Mega-Tuesday primary next March, as the Tory knight who could draw centrist and conservative Democrats back to the party. The two immediate beneficiaries: Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, who despite his more liberal record could become the South's favorite son; and Jesse Jackson, whose solid base of black support is likely to win him an even greater share of Southern delegates with the region's white vote splintered...
Actually, Nunn was calling the roll of his more prominent fellow refuseniks. Not running for President has become the rage this year, quite a paradox considering the opportunities. Rarely has the gold ring seemed to be so reachable. With the incumbent retiring and neither party boasting an automatic heir, just about any credible politician could board the presidential carousel. Many have, along with some less credible ones, 14 all told at last count. Yet the number who decline to whirl has grown just as startlingly...
Tense beneath her first saddle and confined to a narrow chute, the mustang lays back her ears indignantly. Robinson, 28, tall and powerfully built, eases atop the animal, and she erupts in furious leaps. Fellow convicts pull Robinson to safety. Released into the corral, the mare kicks like a ninja assassin as cowboys in green prison garb shout and wave their Stetsons to keep her from banging into the fence. Robinson climbs on again and seconds later is bucked into the dust. Yet even a wild horse eventually tires. Another man mounts up, the mare crow-hops a bit, stiff...