Word: litterers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sure that anything could save Arena football. However, being a person with many ideals, maybe Arena football would be a little better if the announcers were a litter more interesting, or if they bothered to get the rules down...
...Director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) is sitting behind his desk on a rainy July day, surrounded by boxes that litter his freshly vacuumed office floor. A small bust of Abraham Lincoln and a picture of Dick, as his friends call him, at the Great Wall of China stand out amongst the debris. Worn books on politics such as "All the President's Men," "The Final Days," "The Brethren," and works by Garry Wills and William Safire stare out from the wall behind...
Such are the scenes of morning in the scandal-scarred spring of 1987. Lamentation is in the air, and clay feet litter the ground. A relentless procession of forlorn faces assaults the nation's moral equanimity, characters linked in the public mind not by any connection between their diverse dubious deeds but by the fact that each in his or her own way has somehow seemed to betray the public trust: Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, Michael Deaver, Ivan Boesky, Gary Hart, Clayton Lonetree, Jim and Tammy Bakker, maybe Edwin Meese, perhaps even the President. Their transgressions -- some grievous and some...
...partners in Irish-American history's most important , merger. She offers little that is new and no shocks. If anything, Goodwin, author of Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream and the wife of former Kennedy Speechwriter Richard Goodwin, softens the impact of the familiar political and sexual scandals that litter the path from the old sod to the Oval Office. Her approach is to balance the requirements of scholarship (Goodwin was a professor of government at Harvard) with the demands of the literary marketplace...
...John, Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice, Patricia, Robert, Jean and Edward. There are some formidable characters here. Rose was defender of the faith and the stoic keeper of the hearth and appearances. Joe Jr., killed during World War II on a near suicidal bombing mission, was the pick of the litter. Vivacious Kathleen ("Kick") died in 1948 with her foolish lover when he insisted on flying through a thunderstorm. But they, and even the quick- witted future President, are overshadowed by the powerful father figure...