Word: fording
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pair is taken into protective custody by Detective John Book (Harrison Ford, in a shy, gruff, well-controlled performance). But when Samuel identifies the killer as a policeman, and Book discovers that the man is part of a dope ring that includes other police officers, it is he who needs protection. Shot by the murderer, Book hides out on Rachel's farm, where his wound is healed by folk medicine. But his presence is resented by the Amish. They are kindly but stern people who understand that threats to their way of life can come in benign forms...
...victims of torture, the world is a minefield of horrifying memories. One woman panics whenever she sees a dark Ford like the one that hauled her away to severe beatings and a gang rape. Some survivors have trouble entering bathrooms, because the tile, lighting and smell summon up images of their torture chambers. "How do you cure torture?" asks Genevieve Cowgill, 44, director of the Canadian Center for Investigation and Prevention of Torture. "It's not something you can simply talk victims...
...Churchill's lonely crusade in the 1930s, when he strove to rearm an unwilling Britain against the onslaught of Nazism. Weinberger was never viewed as a hawk in earlier phases of his public career, notably as Budget Director and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon and Ford Administrations. Yet when Weinberger returned to Washington in 1981, almost overnight he began sounding Cassandra-like warnings about the Soviet Union's impending military threat. What shocked him most, according to associates, was a series of intelligence briefings that documented the extent of Soviet technological progress during his six years...
...companies was once a pleasant, undemanding hobby for business biggies. The directorships offered short hours, fine camaraderie, handsome pay and hardly any tough decisions. "Sitting on a board as little as 15 years ago was almost like going to a men's club," says Arjay Miller, former president of Ford and the current director of nine companies. "The chairman put his buddies on the board...
Lacy and Hanks gradually won converts, including Presidents Nixon and Ford. Among the more conspicuous results of the continuing effort at NEA: two agencies, NASA and the Labor Department, now have a corporate identity with distinctive logotypes and uniform graphics; the U.S. Government occasionally holds design competitions for important civic works, a practice it generally has frowned on for almost two centuries. And, equally important, at the * instigation of the present NEA chairman, Frank Hodsoll, President Reagan elevated the prestige of the good-design movement in the Federal Government by establishing quadrennial presidential awards for design excellence...