Word: juggernauts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan also has the entire resources of the Republican Party a his disposal not least of which are the sophisticated PR, media, and high tech skills of its top strategists. The Reagan '84 campaign boasts many of the same key players that carried the '80 juggernaut like campaign chairman, Sen. Paul Laxalt (R-Nev); campaign manager, Edward Rollins; the pollster Richard Wirthlin; and White House advisers James Baker and Michael K. Deaver...
...Mondale juggernaut, meanwhile, was demonstrating that it was as adept at doorbell-to-doorbell combat as it is in harvesting endorsements. Said Agnes Tomkinson, 79, of Portsmouth: "They all keep calling me on the phone and I don't know...
...broad outlines of Germany's assault began to take shape. Recapture of what was Germany in 1914 was the first objective: Danzig, the Corridor, and a hump of Upper Silesia. It is believed that Adolf Hitler, if allowed to take this much, might have checked his juggernaut at these lines. When Britain & France insisted that he withdraw entirely from Polish soil, he determined on the complete subjugation of Poland...
Both opposition blocs seemed intent on throwing all their ammunition into a frantic final effort to slow the Thatcher juggernaut. Deputy Labor Party Leader Denis Winston Healey launched a merciless, near hysterical attack on Thatcher for her leadership during the Falklands war. Speaking of "this Prime Minister who glories in slaughter," he accused Thatcher "of wrapping herself in the Union Jack and exploiting our soldiers, sailors and airmen." The outburst stunned even the opposition. Replied Conservative Party Chairman Cecil Parkinson: "This must win the prize for the most contemptible statement of the election campaign." Thatcher declared that Healey...
...nervous residents of Hattiesburg, Miss., watched on Wednesday afternoon, the skies blackened and pounding sheets of rain began to fall. Kimberly Marks, 7, stepped off a school bus, walked down the street and was swept away by a juggernaut of water. Her body, coated with debris, was recovered on Thursday. She was one of at least ten who died in a series of thunderstorms that began in the Gulf of Mexico and caused the worst floods in 20 years in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. An estimated 30,000 people, 25,000 from Louisiana alone, were evacuated...