Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first some aides fretted that Ruckelshaus, who has never been a member of Reagan's inner circle of supporters, would not be acceptable to the right wing of the party. They were afraid that he might not prove a team player, recalling that, as Deputy Attorney General under President Nixon, he resigned rather than fire Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in the famed Saturday Night Massacre of October 1973. Two weeks ago, Presidential Adviser Craig Fuller telephoned Interior Department Head James Watt to get a conservative reading. Watt was enthusiastic about Ruckelshaus and said that in private conversations...
Peter Thompson's unobtrusive direction of the less than 90-minute piece highlights its main theme--how a man must deal with being singled out for life amidst death, glory amidst gore. Jackson is intelligent and decently raised, his inner conflict, that of a just man in a wretchedly amoral situation, eventually leads him to madness. The irony of President Johnson rewarding gross carnage is compounded by Jackson's fear that to return his medal would make him just another unemployed Black American. For him, the medal of honor, in one sense a key to opportunity, only locks him into...
...newer poems tend to telescope people, events, places and hint at the inner life in them until the end of the poem, when the joy in only tangible things is destroyed and replaced with a vision of one enduring idea whether it be blood, love, or the continuousness of change...
...leak in the No. 2 engine. A day or so later, the same kind of leak turned up in the No. 3 engine. Faced with this mounting crisis on the eve of a launch, Abrahamson rushed out to the pad, clambered up the launch tower and personally inspected the inner plumbing of the engines. It became clear that NASA's original fix had only exacerbated the problem: instead of preventing chafing during the vibrations at full power, the brazing and extra sleeves had made the fuel lines so stiff that they cracked during test firings...
...Safire, 53, nears his tenth anniversary at the Times in April, his twice-weekly "Essay" on politics, distributed to more than 500 daily newspapers, is considered virtually required reading in the inner circles of Government and journalism. Says one admiring rival, Robert Novak, co-author with Rowland Evans of one of the nation's best-known columns: "Safire is the most readable columnist in Washington and the one I can least afford to miss...