Word: heartbeating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After watching the debate, I am convinced that the lady from Queens is not qualified to be one heartbeat away from the presidency. She looked like a schoolgirl alongside Bush, a distinguished and experienced statesman...
...November, Walter Mondale will learn how few of his fellow Americans want a woman a heartbeat away from the most important job in the world...
...great motivation and, surprisingly, in his analysis winning is not either. He takes what he calls "a Zenistic view." A single well-executed shot is what stirs him. "You have to be psyched up, yet calm and as motionless as possible. Timing is vital. You shoot between heartbeats. My heartbeat throws my aim clear off the target. Then you have to read the wind. That's the worst four-letter word in archery. With all those variables to consider and compensate for, an excellent shot is a great reward...
...stop one another on streets and in offices across the country to discuss the news, one that generated bursts of good feeling-and nervous glances? Because a political taboo of two centuries' standing had finally been abandoned: a woman, at last, is an election away from being a heartbeat away from the most powerful job on earth. Because social structures and cultural norms had been forever amended: the notion of a woman's place, still deeply ingrained despite the long struggle of feminism, would never again be so limited, so confining. Because history had indeed been made...
...Looking Out for No. 2," politicians seem to emphasize that "gender, geography and politics" are the key factors in the selection. Does anyone ever give serious thought to the possibility that the Vice President is only "a heartbeat away" from becoming President...