Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world is misbehaving again, and George Bush's puppy presidency, like Jerry Ford's English-muffin phase, has passed from American screens. Once again, as so often before, troops moved through the night; a defiant dictatorship strode the dark streets of a tiny, helpless nation; NATO complained and quibbled; the Soviets unexpectedly moved a bishop in the great chess game of power. The convicted ghost of Ollie North haunted Pennsylvania Avenue, and House Speaker Jim Wright -- a linchpin in this Government, like him or not -- teetered. The weary old terrestrial sphere was either too hot or too cold and capricious...
...John Sununu. The President's own gleanings from his ceaseless phone calls and television viewing are cranked into the day's crisis agenda. Last week he glanced at the men around him, his principal national security staff, and said, "I saw on TV last night those pictures of Billy Ford ((Panama's opposition vice-presidential candidate, beaten by Noriega's goons)). They had tremendous impact, seeing him standing up to those beatings." Few things are as sacred to Bush as the free election process. Seeing it violated so savagely hit him particularly hard...
...Panama Defense Force nonchalantly looked on, the thugs closed in on the victorious trio who three days earlier had easily defeated the handpicked candidates of Panamanian General Manuel Antonio Noriega for the posts of President and First and Second Vice Presidents. Suddenly the thugs grabbed the bodyguard of Guillermo Ford, the candidate for Second Vice President, shoved him against a car, thrust a gun into his mouth and fired...
...Ford, his white guayabera drenched with his bodyguard's blood and with television cameras whirring, tried to stumble away, two of the attackers lifted their clubs and methodically struck him again and again. Only the intercession of a PDF officer, who hustled Ford into a car and sped away, saved the white-haired candidate from what might have been a fatal mauling...
Pope John Paul II signed one once after an outdoor Mass in San Francisco's Candlestick Park. Like Whitey Ford, who writes "Ed Ford" to conserve energy, the Pope went with "JP II." If he knows baseball, he might wonder what ever happened to that era of priceless memories when small boys leaned out over dugout railings and haunted stadium gates. A number of contemporary players, like the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser and Don Mattingly of the Yankees, boycott the cattle calls. "Every kid is looking for a moment or hoping for a word, but no one ever even glances...