Word: homestretch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Entering the homestretch of its current term, the U.S. Supreme Court quickened its pace last week by issuing 23 decisions. In addition to its landmark judgment protecting flag burning as a form of free expression, the high bench announced a series of other important rulings in the areas of free speech and criminal law. Following past patterns, the Justices remained vigilant on First Amendment rights but continued to chip away at the constitutional safeguards of criminal defendants...
Vice President George Bush brandished a newspaper headline calling the Massachusetts budget "a mess" yesterday, as he returned to the offense in the race for the White House. Democratic nominee and underdog Michael S. Dukakis said his Republican rival was "slipping and we're surging" into the homestretch...
...fudged in an election. In 1940, with Western Europe plunged into war and the rest of the globe poised to follow, the American people were faced with a choice between a pair of interventionists, F.D.R. and Wendell Willkie. But both men, dissembling their true convictions, came down the campaign homestretch as quasi-isolationists. Their waffling reflected a national division, not closed until Pearl Harbor...
...most exciting two minutes in sports" ran over this year by more than three seconds. But Alysheba and Bet Twice bumped and bobbled enough in the homestretch to make last week's garden-variety Kentucky Derby richly exciting. And every party to Alysheba's three-quarter-length victory had estimable charm...
Recruiting trips and phone marathons are keeping the Admissions Committee of the Asian American Association (AAA) busy, as Byerly Hall's search for talented minorities pulls into the homestretch. The AAA members work with representatives from other minority groups on campus under the auspices of the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program (UMRC), through the Admissions Office...