Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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STAYING ALIVE. For all the talk that the New Hampshire vote would cut down the field -- or be so fractured that party power brokers could lure a big-name contender into the fray -- it remains a five-man race. Despite nudges and nods from Albany, the overhyped Mario Cuomo write-in campaign (4%) drooped as badly as New York State's credit rating. Clinton's resurrection was enough to scare off potential candidates like Congressman Richard Gephardt and Senator Lloyd Bentsen. The message from New Hampshire was an unequivocal one: "No guts, no glory...
...between Vietnamese northerners and those from the south, who are normally held separately in the camps because of their longstanding political and cultural antagonisms. As police began arriving in force, 2,000 southern Vietnamese in an adjacent section tore down a 17-ft. wire-mesh fence and joined the fray. Panicked northerners sought refuge in a corrugated-steel dormitory. Their attackers began burning blankets and stuffing them through windows, setting fire to the building. The eventual toll: 23 burned alive or suffocated, including 10 children, and 125 injured, some of them seriously enough to be hospitalized...
...just when things seemed bad enough, Patrick J. Buchanan, darling of the right wing, entered the fray. Suddenly, Bush faced the growing likelihood of an early retirement...
When George Bush gathered 36 political advisers around a Camp David conference table last August to discuss the 1992 campaign, most of his guests jockeyed for choice seats near Bush or chief of staff John Sununu. Avoiding the fray, however, was Sam Skinner, who entered the room last and quietly took a seat along the back wall. While others injected unsolicited opinions and tried to score points with the boss, Skinner spoke only when Bush requested his opinion, which, according to one participant, happened frequently. "It was clear to everybody in the room that John Sununu was still Bush...
...other side, accommodationists make many of the same arguments with a different twist. It is religious people who have been ostracized, argues lawyer John Whitehead, founder of the Rutherford Institute, a not-for-profit religious-liberty advocacy organization backed by conservative Protestants. Whitehead entered the church-state fray in 1976 when he defended a fourth- grade girl in California whose teacher said she could not wear a cross on her necklace. "Society has been secularized, and the religious person finds he's the odd person out," Whitehead says. "In public schools, religion is something to be avoided, obsolete...