Word: grounds
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...many hands. Even in its strongest, most poetic passages there seemed to be something missing. When Dole stirringly pointed to the exits in the convention hall and declared the Republicans the party of Lincoln, he invited any bigoted delegates to leave, "as I stand here and hold this ground." But the way the section was constructed, it seemed as if he were telling the party it was bigoted and no longer welcome at his convention...
Scott O'Grady, the Air Force captain who evaded capture for six days on the ground in Bosnia last year after his F-16 was shot down, stirs a convention of budget cutters by telling them about a massive government spending program: the "armada of military power" dispatched by the U.S. to rescue him alone. Talk about the safety...
...front of the Hilton, on Michigan Avenue, two sides of America ground against each other like tectonic plates. Each side cartooned and ridiculed the other so brutally that by now the two seemed to belong almost to different species. The '60s had a genius for excess and caricature. On one side, the love-it-or-leave-it, proud, Middle American, Okie-from-Muskogee, traditionalist nation of squares who supported the cold war assumptions that took Lyndon Johnson ever deeper into Vietnam. On the other side, the "countercultural" young, either flower children or revolutionaries, and their fellow-traveling adult allies...
Lebed's meditation before St. George's iconostasis may have helped. When he returned to Moscow the next day, he carried with him an agreement to stop the shooting in Chechnya, disengage troops on the ground and set up a conciliation commission. He swaggered a bit, claiming he had a secret plan to end the Chechnya problem for good but had to talk with President Boris Yeltsin before making it public. And he boldly demanded that Yeltsin get rid of the Moscow official he blamed for Russia's latest bloody disaster in Chechnya, where a week of brutal combat...
...arrived on Friday in time to practice in the afternoon, and went to walk the course for the cross-country event. Walking the course means going on foot from jump to jump to check out striding, footing, quirks in the fences, the unevenness of the ground, and shadows. Experienced riders walk the course twice. Reeve always did it three or four times. "The last thing I remember is that on Saturday morning I went out and walked the course again," he says. "I finished suiting up, got Buck out of his stall, rechecked the girth, hopped onboard and headed...