Word: joining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pomeroy hasn't come home for his family--not for his stepmother about to marry the low-rent local politician Curtis Peavey, whose goons keep rearranging his caps--but to join his sweetheart Catherine, a woman he may or may not be married to. Stay away, she warns: "You called me deep-dish Southern plastic in a national publication!" She is a lesbian now, she maintains, having taken up with the bisexual Marcelline. Chet considers this only vaguely through a menthol cocaine haze. Then he nails his hand to her door...
...home, the Carter plan had some early supporters. Said Heath Larry, president of the National Association of Manufacturers: "The time has come for us to join the President in attacking the problem?and stop attacking each other." Claimed a spokesman for Otto Eckstein's Data Resources, Inc., a highly respected economic think tank in Lexington, Mass.: "The President has taken as tough an approach to wage-price standards as is possible short of statutory controls. The program has a reasonable prospect of success." General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones agreed, explaining: "It was reassuring to hear the President place his main...
...elegant pale yellow structure over the years, Blair House has remained a place of hope. The original house was built in 1824 by an offshoot of the Lovell family of Massachusetts, taken over later for a century by the Blairs, who came out of Kentucky to join Jackson and waxed wealthy from publishing and real estate. But always the national purpose was a central theme in the family life. Indeed, it was Francis Preston Blair Sr. who twice went off for Lincoln on secret missions to Jefferson Davis to urge peace in the Civil War. That spirit still stalks those...
...Saunders' purpose had been to assure Jordan's King Hussein that U.S. policy in the Middle East had not changed: Washington still believed that Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank is illegal. The U.S. hoped to convince Hussein that the time had come for him to join the peace process and to strengthen Sadat's position in the negotiations, increasing the chances of an eventual settlement between Israel and its other Arab neighbors...
...that the U.S. lacks the will or the power to put enough pressure on Israel to restore Arab rights in the occupied territories. Therefore, the Iraqis reason, the Arabs must do the job themselves. With Egypt committed to a peace agreement with Israel, the Iraqis invited the Syrians to join in forming a united front to create a plausible new military threat to Israel. Thus, last week, the two Arab Presidents signed a "charter for joint national action," thereby ending their long quarrel...