Word: ground
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Broncos offense was able to control the ball on the ground in the second half, and the defense protected the three-point lead with a trio of stands in the final quarter. On the Pats' final possession, defensive end Rulon Jones sacked Eason in the end zone for a safety with 1:37 left...
...superpower game like a grand master. A confident but ill-prepared President Reagan was lured into a no-win confrontation over the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative. By offering the near total elimination of nuclear weapons in exchange for restricting SDI to the laboratory, Gorbachev momentarily captured the propaganda high ground. Reagan attempted to outbid him by promising to do away with all nuclear weapons, but the President was nonetheless pictured as the advocate of military escalation while Gorbachev came across as the man of peace. Sophisticated analysts in the West realized that the issue was far more complicated than that...
...shock us, they are also somehow expected, as if the world were at once in supreme command of itself and superstitious: "I knew that something like this would happen." Perhaps the fact that we are relatively new to the prospect of nuclear war gives us both solid and shaky ground. That fear of annihilation must seem preposterous to you, who either have neutralized it or live with weapons that make our missiles seem like Gatling guns, or both. Congratulations...
...have no choice but to live where we were put. But it is very hard to take one's bearings while living in a perpetualmotion device, and the mind, our private mind, unable to catch up with or absorb all the matter hurled at it, often grasps a different ground entirely...
...facts of our lives. In the 1980s it is O.K. to be divorced, O.K. to be a single parent, O.K. to be different. Slowly, mysteriously, Americans are learning to live according to inner judgments. We are learning to profit from history: rejecting crusaders and romantic ideologies, widening the middle ground...