Word: infirm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...governor's final argument against the bill--that forcing citizens to lug bottles back to the store discriminates against the infirm--is little more than an afterthought, a rationalization of a foregone decision. Anyone who can carry full bottles home from the store can bring back empties...
...also be one of the last chances for the West to deal with the devil it knows, as it were. As the congress settled into a numbing round of other speeches and reports, it bore throughout the un mistakable stamp of the cagey, infirm old boss who had once again exercised absolute control. Quite possibly for the last time...
...Committee against Apartheid, Akporode Clark, scoffingly dismissed Ciskei's independence as "a pernicious project." Clark called it another step to perpetuate "white domination in most of South Africa while relegating the African people to client states that can be no more than dumping grounds for the aged and infirm...
...protégé of Republican Senator Jesse Helms, came from behind to unseat Democratic Incumbent Robert Morgan; in Georgia, Herman Talmadge was upset by Businessman Mack Mattingly. Ironically, the man who next to Reagan is most identified with conservatism almost lost. Arizona's Barry Goldwater, 71, seemed infirm to many voters but managed to eke out a narrow victory. Some of the key Senate contests...
...usual, there could be some upsets in the making. Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, ailing and infirm, is being pressed by Democrat Bill Schulz, who is almost as conservative but healthier and younger (71 vs. 49). Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge, who was denounced by the Senate for financial misconduct was thought to be unbeatable in a state that has not had a Republican Senator since 1873, but he is now a mere points ahead of Challenger Mack Mattingly. It will be a long election night for many...