Word: ike
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seat through five elections, lost to Republican Patrick Lynn Swindall, 33, an Atlanta lawyer and businessman. A Rhodes scholar and a liberal on civil rights, Levitas had been a leading critic of Anne Gorsuch Burford's leadership of the Environmental Protection Agency. He and North Carolina Democrat Ike Andrews both succumbed to the Reagan tide in their states. In 1982, despite a widely publicized drunken-driving charge, Andrews, 59, defeated William Cobey, 45, a former athletic director at the University of North Carolina. Cobey, who had distanced himself from Jesse Helms, this time won the rematch...
...carried a plastic-encased electrocardiogram to show any doubters that his damaged heart was still pumping adequately. He napped two hours a day, then revived with a cold shower rigged for 80 lbs. of pressure per square inch over his enormous body-and great gulps of Cutty Sark Scotch. Ike went through a heart attack, ileitis and a stroke but seemed to grow in kindness and wisdom as if to counterbalance his physical deterioration. He was as effective when he finished as when he started, but he was nowhere near as vigorous, physically or mentally...
...example, expected Oliver Wendell Holmes to uphold his trust-busting legislation. When Holmes disappointed him, Roosevelt exclaimed, "I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that!" Dwight Eisenhower had no reason to think that Warren and Brennan would turn out to be flaming liberals; Ike later regretted Warren's appointment as his worst mistake. "People change on the court," says Dennis Hutchinson of the University of Chicago Law School. "They're not cookie-cutter ideologues...
...Philippines it was a roaring typhoon; in Korea, a torrent of rain. Together, wind and water left a trail of misery last week that stunned even those Asians long inured to natural disasters. Typhoon Ike hit the southern Philippine coast with gusts of over 120 m.p.h., leaving a path of destruction that reached into the northern tip of Mindanao and pummeled the islands of Cebu, Negros and Panay. The storm left more than 2,000 dead and 200,000 homeless before moving across the South China Sea to northeastern Thailand, causing several more deaths and extensive flooding. Total damage...
...said Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the Imperial General Staff, as late as June 5. "It may well be the most ghastly disaster of the whole war." In that same final week, Eisenhower's British deputy for air operations, Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, formally protested to Ike about the planned American parachute assault, which he said would result in the "futile slaughter" of two fine divisions...