Word: forded
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Perhaps the lowest point of Gerald Ford's unsuccessful 1976 presidential campaign came during a debate in which he asserted, "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe." He specifically cited Yugoslavia, Rumania and Poland as being "independent" and "autonomous." Those remarks were seized on by his opponent, Jimmy Carter, as proof that Ford lacked the foreign policy expertise to lead...
Last week, in a tongue-in-cheek article published in the Washington Post, Ford declared that the loosening of Soviet sway over East European countries has vindicated him. "My mother taught me it is wrong to crow," Ford wrote. "But former Presidents, as well as small boys, know no greater joy than being able to say, 'I told you so' . . . I come out pretty well as a prophet...
...Lloyd Bentsen learned of the attempt to buy American, the Texas Democrat prevailed on the Commerce committee to make the bill retroactive so that it would apply to the Trump bid. "The Congress must send a strong message that highly leveraged buyouts are not tolerable," said Kentucky Democrat Wendell Ford, who sponsored the bill along with Arizona Republican John McCain. "I don't want to wake up when all U.S. carriers have been leveraged and bought out," added Ford, "to decide that something should be done to regulate the buying and selling of major parts of our transportation network...
Crossing into Czechoslovakia was no problem. But entering Hungary required an East German exit permit they did not have. The Breites had to abandon the car and ford a river under cover of darkness. Sympathetic Czechs led them to a spot on the Ipoly, a shallow Danube tributary, where other East Germans were making the same trek. Olaf carried two children across; Marlies toted the third. On the Hungarian side, their luck held. Though it was 3:30 a.m., a bus happened by. "There were other refugees inside," Marlies recalls. "And we kept picking up people all along the route...
...were not sure what was happening, but I felt something had to be done" was the way Gerald Ford explained his recapture of the cargo ship Mayaguez in the Gulf of Thailand in 1975. "Let's do it" was Reagan's simple command that sent F-14 pilots aloft on a risky mission in the Mediterranean that apprehended and forced down the Egyptian airliner carrying the hijackers of the cruise ship Achille Lauro...