Word: foray
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latest foray into Iowa, Bush's strengths and weaknesses were on display. In the town of Spencer, Bush, the graduate of Andover and Yale, moves easily among several score Republicans assembled at a modest country club fund raiser. The tall, poised figure in the Brooks Brothers suit sips beer out of a pilsner glass and chats easily. In a short speech he asserts his optimism about the results in the coming caucuses. But the New England aristocrat (his father was a wealthy businessman and U.S. Senator from Connecticut) turned Texas oilman seemed patronizing when discussing that heritage. Said Bush...
...surrounding the site. The seven-foot fence, topped with three strands of barbed wire, will become a symbol--fence-cutting represents direct action against the plant; and among the happiest shouts of the weekend is the one that goes up Monday morning when one group returns from a nighttime foray with 30 feet of the tempered steel. But now, the fence is only in the way, and the goals--the rusting reactor vessel and the turbine building, each flying an American flag--stand outlined in the dawn...
...then that Jesse Jackson, for example, has singled out the Palestinians for his first major foray into global human rights?" Dershowitz asked. He said there are 44 other major subordinated peoples in the world that Jackson seems to be overlooking, citing the Kurds in Iraq and Iran, Crimean Tatars, Ethiopian Jews, and French Canadians as examples...
...League poses some of the country's toughest competition, with Yale and Princeton leading the way. And the annual foray into the South during spring break borders on the masochistic: the Crimson endured consecutive 9-0 drubbings at North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Duke and Virginia last year...
...Carter grinned delightedly. From his perilous perch, he reached out to the people. At least from his viewpoint, Carter's post-Camp David drive to get back in touch with grass-roots America was off to a successful start. This week he is making a similar foray into Baltimore...