Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NEW FACES IN THE SENATE "THE GOOD MOUTH" "WE ELECTED A DEMOCRATIC WOMAN NAMED BARBARA AND SOMEBODY NAMED MIKULSKI, AND THE SENATE WON'T BE THE SAME FROM NOW ON!" THUS CROWED THE MARYLAND WINNER, A 4-FT. 11-IN. BUNDLE OF ENERGY WITH A VOICE LIKE A BALTIMORE HARBOR...
Here Reagan has the upper hand in one sense: he is not seeking re-election, and with a Democratic Senate, he can cast blame more easily than when the Republicans were in control. So he could simply refuse to make any real compromises. But if he does that, his historic...
The victory was impressive. The winning party picked up eight seats across the nation, making historic breakthroughs in the South that seemed to suggest a continuing realignment of regional political loyalties. This was not the smashing Democratic coup in Senate races; it was the Republicans' success in slashing the Democrats...
Goldwater's uncompromising libertarianism was appealing enough to both small-town Republicans and big-city wheeler-dealers to give him the 1964 presidential nomination, although he was crushed in a landslide of historic proportions. Today he sees it all as a kind of felix culpa, a happy fall. "It never...
As much at ease in a tailored business suit as in a traditional flowing Bedouin thobe, or lengthy shirt, Yamani was the chief architect of the 1973-74 OPEC oil embargo. That historic action, which drastically cut back OPEC exports to several Western nations, including the U.S., more than quadrupled...