Word: glue
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...told police that a copy of what might have been a new will had been erased from Jose Menendez's home computer. "The focus became very clear over the past few months," said Chief of Police Marvin Iannone. There was some physical evidence, but "we were waiting for the glue binding it together...
...enemies and new issues are needed badly. Anticommunism was "the glue that holds the movement together," as David Keene of the American Conservative Union puts it. Says Heritage Foundation Vice President Burton Pines: "It is a sign of enormous triumph that there are no galvanizing issues for conservatives today." It is a sign of danger as well: in periodicals and forums, even as conservatives celebrate their recent accomplishments, they fret about imminent splintering...
Anticommunism was the glue that held the right wing together, but the Red Menace is fading away. So far, the search for an issue to fill the void has come up empty. -- The Political Interest: Michael Kramer explains why Bush's low-key diplomacy may be just right for the times. -- A two-fisted millionaire rancher turns on Texas voters. -- In San Diego the most potent triple play is O'Connor to Copley to Kroc...
...largely by proclamation, military muscle and caprice. Given Nicaragua's history of never managing a change of government without bloodshed, the odds seem stacked against Chamorro. Adding to her problems is the fractious 14- party coalition, ranging ideologically from conservative to Communist, that the President-elect heads. The parties' glue, a common antipathy toward the Sandinistas, may not be strong enough to keep them together. Chamorro must also ensure the retirement of the 15,000 U.S.-backed contras if she hopes to restore peace...
...Some glue! In both cases party membership in the provinces was more like plastic explosive...