Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most callers try to get through to King's guests, who have included a broad range of the powerful, rich and famous in America. King interviewed President Gerald Ford in the midst of the confusion at the 1980 Republican national convention. He was the first interviewer in America to speak with a returned hostage from Iran. Senator Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) drove to the radio studio at three o'clock in the morning and blasted President Jimmy Carter the night the news broke of the aborted attempt to rescue the hostages...
...resented the settlement, which the U.S. Government demanded as the price of loan guarantees to the company. The workers now average about $20,000 (Canadian) in annual earnings and want nearly $3 more an hour than their base wage rate of $9.07 to catch up to their counterparts at Ford and GM. Said one embittered striker: "We're losing our homes, and we're losing our sanity, and all we want is our money...
...welcome. Life, the Universe and Everything (Harmony; $9.95) is like nothing ever published before except, perhaps, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, also written by Douglas Adams. Once again the protagonist is a reluctant wanderer named Arthur Dent; once again his intergalactic guide is an extraterrestrial named Ford Prefect. Vooming around the void accompanied by a two-headed, three-armed creature who once controlled the universe and a sexy space cadet, Dent manages to avert Armageddon and save the world for life as we never knew it. Adams delights in cosmic pratfalls, and if he sometimes loses track...
...class milieu that Springsteen has made his own. There, all lives are dead ends, but the turnpikes go on forever. Springsteen certainly has mined this territory before, but he makes the repetition work for him: he can get the same sort of mythic resonance from this setting that John Ford took out of Monument Valley...
...Landis, was sent in from the federal bench to banish the "Black Sox" fixers of 1919 and restore righteousness. His law was arbitrary and final. Kuhn greatly admired Landis. The judge's successor, Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler, was a posturing "ol' podner." The man who followed Chandler, Ford Frick, was a reluctant leader hesitant to decide anything. Next came General William D. Eckert, "the unknown soldier," a strategic and forlorn disaster...