Word: grandly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issues or to provide an alternative agenda. Their eight-seat gain in the Senate came from a string of races that were decided on local issues. In almost every tightly contested state the local hero won. The outcome Tuesday certainly demonstrated that the voters' newfound attachment to the Grand Old Party may run only as deep as their attachment to Reagan's popularity--and without his name on the ballot, they are far from willing to endorse the kind of policies he has promulgated...
...please, the little building is more cute than contentious. John Syvertsen has envisioned a Wisconsin lake cottage as a kind of friendly folk pavilion: the tin chimney, latticework and exposed Y trusses satisfy the middle-class Arcadian ideal, while the broad stairs and hipped roof make the cottage nearly grand -- rustic classical...
...from Britain, France and Italy, and even an Israeli airman held in Lebanon. In Israel, the counterpart would presumably be the freeing of some or all of 108 Shi'ites being held in southern Lebanon by the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militia. It was not clear whether a grand swap would also involve other Arab prisoners held in the West. According to one report circulating in Beirut, France would turn loose Georges Ibrahim Abdallah. French officials promptly denied any such deal...
...Democratic gains in the proper perspective, we must first consider their 1980 losses. In that year incumbent defeats in divisive primaries, scandal, and infirmity account for five seats. The defeats of prominent liberals like Bath, Church, Culver, Durkin, McGovern and Nelson were the basis of the grand interpretations of the outcomes. But as a class these were exceedingly vulnerable candidates. Excepting Nelson, their average vote in the preceding election was 53 percent, and their previous election was 1974--the most disastrous Republican year in a generation. In short, these liberal Senators were living on borrowed time. Had 1974 been...
...first George Washington and that singular French genius Pierre l'Enfant planned a "President's palace" five times larger than the present structure. But many Americans were opposed to such monarchical pretensions, so Washington acquiesced. When workmen came to him in 1792 with L'Enfant's grand design for a capital city in which the President's house was to be at the center, Washington paced the ground and set the stakes marking the north wall of the more modest residence designed by James Hoban, which Theodore Roosevelt would dub the "White House...