Word: iwo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kerrey candor dates back to childhood. But it first registered strongly on Washington's political Richter scale when he defended the right to burn the flag, while George Bush, also a war hero, was leading a posse of television camera crews to the Iwo Jima Memorial in Virginia, where he grandly condemned such acts. More recently, Kerrey has questioned the Persian Gulf deployment and flatly opposed a $20 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia. Even before he first ran for office, Kerrey supported amnesty for Vietnam draft dodgers. These positions have not won much favor among generally conservative Nebraskans...
...have been losing their cutting issues: military strength, anticommunist vigilance, no new taxes and opposition to abortion. What remains is the gut "values issues" that George Bush exploited in 1988. At a Rose Garden photo-op during which he received a statue of the Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima, the President professed not to be playing politics: "Amending the Constitution to protect the flag is not a matter of partisan politics . . . It's an American issue." While implying that defending the Bill of Rights was not quite American, Bush left it to others to make the partisan connections...
They are the nation's oldest fighting unit. Their stirring anthem and brave slogan -- "Semper Fidelis," always faithful -- have lifted patriotic hearts for 122 years. They have won some of the most revered battles in military history: Belleau Wood, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, Inchon. Their nicknames are synonyms for fierce fighting men: Jarheads, Leathernecks, Devil Dogs...