Word: keyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Carolyn's service game was great," Forman added. "She served nice, steady serves. She was the key to both victories...
Through five days of testimony, Bork portrayed himself as a questing thinker who had mellowed with time. In the process, he modified or danced away from several of his well-documented, iconoclastic views on key legal issues ranging from freedom of speech to sex discrimination. To explain his evolving ideas, he quoted Benjamin Franklin: "The older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment and to pay more respect to the judgment of others...
Such advantages for the few have stirred outrage among the many. Leaders from Mao Tse-tung to Deng Xiaoping have decried nepotism and launched campaigns to end it. When student protesters called for democratic reforms last winter, they made equal opportunity a key demand. Scandalized party elders complain that in recent years some taizi pai members have committed crimes, including murder, and then used their influence to escape punishment. Last spring veteran Army Marshal Nie Rongzhen warned in a widely discussed public letter of "public indignation" over these unfair practices. "Those who were unsuitably promoted should be either demoted...
Robertson counts among his ancestors Presidents William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison; his late father A. Willis Robertson served in the House and then the Senate for 34 years. Young Pat won a Phi Beta Kappa key at Washington and Lee University in his hometown of Lexington, Va., served in the Marines and earned his law degree at Yale. But he never worked as a lawyer. While living in New York City with his bride Dede, a nurse, Robertson was trying to succeed in the electronics-components business when his religious calling overtook him. By his account in Shout...
...blind date in 1963. Born in Washington, she studied psychology at the University of Maryland and became a full-time parent shortly after marrying Cosby. Those who know her describe her as classy, reserved, feminine and stubborn. She has used her leverage sparingly but decisively at key points in her husband's career: most recently by encouraging him to create a family TV series and then siding with the producers, who wanted the show's husband to be a physician and the wife a lawyer. (Cosby originally wanted to play a chauffeur married to a Hispanic plumber.) "Camille thought...