Word: helm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After five years of Nixon at the nation's helm, none of this should seem surprising. That national policy under his administration should benefit industry and hurt consumers, and bring profit to a small group of the powerful corporate interests, is only logical. Everything ends up being subverted for political ends. Even now, Congress is considering a measure which would end busing to promote racial balance in schools on the grounds that it uses up too much gasoline. Nixon must find the energy crisis almost too good to be true. It even makes people forget about Watergate. If there hadn...
...campaign. The President inspired an ovation by declaring in a nautical note: "I can assure you that you don't need to worry about my getting seasick or jumping ship. It is the captain's job to bring that ship into port. I am going to stay at the helm until we bring it into port...
DAVID BEN-GURION was one of the last of the seemingly larger-than-life national leaders who emerged in the 1930s and 40s. A few of these men--China's Mao, Argentina's Peron, Yugoslavia's Tito--are still at the helm, but almost all of them have been replaced by people like Leonid Brezhnev and President Nixon, uninspiring but still dangerously powerful...
Scientists to the Helm...
Pineapple Milt Holt took the helm on the Crimson's next series. The junior southpaw drove the team 69 yards downfield in six plays and handed off to junior halfback Doug Quimby, who went in from four yards out. Tetirick kicked the extra point with just 27 seconds left in the half...