Word: high
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter was at his best in the forum he seems to like most: a "town meeting," in the sweltering Bardstown high school gym, which was jammed with 2,100 people who had waited up to three hours for good seats. Shedding his jacket and rolling up his sleeves, Carter was as folksy as the victorious campaigner of 1976. When one youth found that his microphone would not work, the President graciously called him to the podium to use his. When a rural woman complained about the telephone rates in her neighborhood, Carter promised to call the head of the state...
Born to an upper-class Jewish family in Berlin, Marcuse became a confirmed Marxist while studying at the universities of Berlin and Freiburg. In the German idealist tradition, he had abnormally high expectations for mankind and came to the conclusion that only revolution could realize them. He was a founder of the leftist Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. With the rise of Hitler, Marcuse and other members of the institute fled to the U.S., where they had a continuing impact on academic opinion...
...cash (a 1979 budget of $300,000) but high on idealism, Commoner and his colleagues plan a national convention early next year and hope to nominate a presidential candidate. Said he: "We do not intend to be a third party nibbling away at the crumbs left over by the other two parties. We're going to challenge them for their existence...
...Thatcher's success was all the more remarkable in light of the animosity that had greeted her on arrival. Zambian reporters asked her rude questions and crowds booed her. During a reception at the British High Commission in Lusaka, a group of her expatriate countrymen advised her, "Don't be bullied, Prime Minister." She replied coolly, "I am not bulliable." But she realized that her earlier comments in support of the Salisbury government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa had been ill-advised and had offended many Africans. She has since accepted the view of colleagues, including her Foreign Secretary...
...minute press conference in Paris, where he emerged from a half-year of hiding to denounce the revolutionary government that toppled him in February after barely more than a month in office. Bakhtiar, who is on the regime's wanted list of former officials charged with high crimes, accused Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini of lacking "a master idea" for Iran and predicted that the waste and corruption under the Islamic government "will surpass" anything seen in 25 years under the Shah. His aides were beginning to transmit cassette tapes back home to spread his message, as Khomeini had done...