Word: hawked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some 200 people--including operafans, autograph hounds and even a Beverly Sills look-alike-turned out Saturday to greet the retired opera queen as she came to the Coop to hawk her autobiography and a new set of records...
...bureaucratic bloat. He might have been succeeded by, say, Robert Kennedy. All of that is, of course, imponderable. As it was, the war shook the Democratic Party for years. Among a number of other divisions, in fact, the party is still split along the lines drawn years ago between hawk and dove, Johnson and Kennedy. Says George McGovern, who ran on an antiwar platform in the 1972 presidential election and was buried in the landslide that gave Richard Nixon a second term: "The Viet Nam tragedy is at the root of the confusion and division of the Democratic Party...
...make the comparison directly, it is hard to believe that Weinberger, 67, does not see links between his mission at the Pentagon and Churchill's lonely crusade in the 1930s, when he strove to rearm an unwilling Britain against the onslaught of Nazism. Weinberger was never viewed as a hawk in earlier phases of his public career, notably as Budget Director and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon and Ford Administrations. Yet when Weinberger returned to Washington in 1981, almost overnight he began sounding Cassandra-like warnings about the Soviet Union's impending military threat. What shocked...
...Weinberger may find the going tougher than usual on Capitol Hill, where discontent is growing even in precincts normally friendly to the Pentagon. House Democrats ousted Arms Services Chairman Melvin Price of Illinois, an aging and pliable hawk, and replaced him with Les Aspin of Wisconsin, a maverick who has often crossed the Pentagon. In the Senate, the retirement of Armed Services Committee Chairman John Tower, the Pentagon's chief congressional water carrier in years past, paved the way for the succession of the independent-minded Barry Goldwater. Vows Aspin: "Congress simply isn't going to go along with letting...
...Pacific Fleet. The presence of that formidable force has made the Sea of Japan a hub of subsurface activity and, not coincidentally, the scene of a growing number of underwater accidents. Last week's incident took place not far from where the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk collided with a Soviet nuclear-powered submarine in March...