Word: grit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reports TIME'S White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett: "Jimmy Carter has the capacity to become a successful President. Despite the errors and disappointments of these first two years, he has demonstrated several of the necessary qualities: a huge supply of personal grit; the nerve to innovate, to take up causes even though the political deck seems stacked against him. He has a special kind of resilience, and a blend of stubbornness and flexibility. He must still prove that he has enough leadership talent to meld these qualities effectively and to persuade the nation that he can perform the missions...
...Hollywood filmdom; with cancer; in Los Angeles. In a 9½-hour operation, Wayne's stomach was removed, but laboratory tests showed that the malignancy had spread to his gastric lymph nodes. The patient, whose cancerous left lung was removed in 1964, accepted the news with true grit. "I've licked the Big ¶before," he said. "And I'll lick it again...
...where is there greater evil than in Metropolis, the image of Manhattan right down to the grit on the sidewalks? Clark Kent (Christopher Reeve) lands a job on the Daily Planet, where he can keep a watch on crime and corruption, and then, with cape on and horn-rimmed glasses off, swoop down on crooks everywhere. The city is agog, and Planet Reporter Lois Lane is assigned to find out all about the flying miracle worker. As played by Margot Kidder, Lois is not the starchy spinster of the comics and the TV serial...
...impossible to figure out. Goin' South does provide him with the funniest -and possibly the most enjoyable-role he's ever had. Henry Moon, the film's Texas outlaw hero, can take his place alongside Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou, John Wayne in True Grit and Jason Robards in The Ballad of Cable Hogue. A good-hearted rogue with slovenly personal habits, Moon is the essence of frontier vulgarity. He gobbles meals in a single bite, guzzles booze as if it were mother's milk and addresses women with a courtliness so exaggerated that it comes...
...were 1,000 or so other folks. In the background were the rolling farm land and pine forests of south Georgia. In the foreground was Billy's new and modest mansion, 19 long miles from Plains, a kind of post-bellum Tara, built out of brick and grit and Billy's determination to be an altogether different sort of person from his brother...