Word: heel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the recovery from the last serious postwar recession of 1973-75, economic growth eventually gave way, beginning in early 1978, to a rebirth of high inflation. Then the Federal Reserve began to tighten up on credit to cool off the economy and bring inflation to heel. Yet making money scarce automatically makes it more costly, thus pushing interest rates up and sending bond prices skidding...
...until Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981 that relations between the two countries seriously deteriorated. The Administration began charging that the Sandinistas, backed by Cuba and the Soviet Union, were funneling arms to leftist guerrillas in El Salvador, often shipping the weapons across the southern heel of Honduras. In December 1981, Reagan gave the go-ahead for a series of covert operations to snip the supply line and intimidate the Sandinistas. Included were financial aid for opposition groups within Nicaragua and military assistance to the various contras (counterrevolutionaries) who conduct raids into Nicaragua from bases in Honduras...
Caro's Johnson is, for the most part, a heel. But like many another great man, Johnson failed in his efforts to be thoroughly knavish. As a young teacher in a dusty South Texas hamlet, he drove his Mexican-American students relentlessly, and gave them self-respect and ambitions they had never known. In the book's most touching chapter, Caro describes Johnson's enduring love for Alice Glass, the high-spirited mistress and later the wife of Publisher and Oilman Charles Marsh. Their affair began in 1938, after Alice, then 26, met the tall, jug-eared...
...Senate races in Missouri and Virginia, every candidate seems to have an Achilles' heel-or two. But as the campaigns enter their final days, the candidates are still trying to step up the pace. The polls are showing their races too tight to call. Meanwhile, in important House battles in Illinois and California, Republican candidates are receiving White House aid, and Democratic opponents are trying hard to capitalize on voter concerns about the economy...
...predicted that after this war, "the Russians will be talking less," and added that the condition of the Eastern Bloc countries "under the Soviet heel" could improve...