Word: felting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...people shows him to be the overwhelming choice for his own party's nomination. More than twice as many Democrats (62%) would prefer to see Kennedy as their party's nominee than Carter (24%). Nearly two-thirds of all those surveyed, Republicans as well as Democrats, felt Kennedy was "acceptable," and only one in three felt he was too liberal. While President Carter would lose to Ronald Reagan, according to the poll, and barely beat Connally, Kennedy would swamp either Republican...
...against this national gloom and concern, prospective candidates are rising or falling on the extent to which they are seen as strong leaders. The survey found Kennedy to have the highest leadership rating of all the presidential prospects. Fifty-eight percent said they felt Kennedy was "very strong" as a leader and only 12% said he was "not strong...
...BLACK STAR Among the most important was Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, who said she delayed agreeing to speak up for Connally for a week, partly because she felt she was "being used ... because [Washington] is an overwhelmingly black town" but finally testified on his behalf for the sake of fairness...
...past ten years. Roy Mason, Ulster Secretary in the last Labor government, said he believed Mountbatten's death signaled a frightening new dimension in terrorism, that is, competition among the assassins. "After the Irish National Liberation Army killed M.P. Airey Neave [last March]," said Mason, "the Provos felt they had been made to look incompetent. Apart from the Provos' own cause, they have now been whipped into a new frenzied aim of neutralizing the success of the breakaway militant faction, the I.N.L.A...
...wife's urging, I recently went into a discotheque in Aspen. I can tell you I felt the generation gap greatly there," he said...