Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...race was all but over. Starting out 17 months ago with no national political base, name recognition or backing from powerful interest groups, onetime Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter had carved out on his own a broad constituency of smalltown and rural voters, blue-collar ethnics, white-collar suburbanites, inner-city blacks. Week after week, winning primaries in the North, South and Midwest, he steadily thinned the ranks of his rivals. Last week by triumphing decisively and against formidable odds in Pennsylvania's pivotal primary, he all but crushed his remaining opposition, including Democratic Senior Statesman Hubert Humphrey...
Michael Novak, a Catholic theologian and perceptive analyst of U.S. politics, wrote recently in the Washington Post: "The source of discomfort is that they [Northerners] do not know at first hand the pressures that shaped him, his inner demons and his inner angels. They can't confidently imagine scenarios of various pressures upon him and predict how he will act. He is, from his point of view, an outsider breaking in on their world. But they are, from their point of view, outsiders who can't quite understand what makes him tick...
...inner peace...
...inner qualities that give rise to his driving ambition, iron will and unmovable adherence to moral principles are also the source of what he admits...
...Houston; and a man named Melvin Dummar, who leases a gas station in Willard, Utah. Hughes' former wives (Ella Rice and Jean Peters) were to divide a one-sixteenth share. Aside from bequests to the Boy Scouts, an orphans' home and a school scholarship fund, Hughes' inner circle of aides stood to collect the rest of the estate, some $450 million...