Word: lone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each hour, after students scurry across the Yard and disappear into classes, the air falls quiet except for the sound of a lone voice. A group of people gathered in front of Massachusetts Hall hear that "it is the oldest building on campus, built in 1720, and it has always been a student dorm, but now it also houses the President of the University's office...
...requirements for a degree, from ancient times on, has been... the capacity to receive what has been conferred," said Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who was apparently the lone dissenter on the Faculty Council...
...willing to help provide it." The next day, Republican Dan Quayle of Indiana, head of a special bipartisan committee studying Senate procedures, met with Dole and recommended changes that would limit a legislator's committee assignments and cut down on the parliamentary loopholes that allow a lone dissenter to bring the chamber to a standstill. Such internal reforms, however, could be more difficult to pass than a tax-reform package...
...Democrat has ever won the White House without winning Texas, and Mondale lost it by 28 points. He made an early push in the Lone-Star State, staging an impressive registration drive that claimed half a million new voters. But the Republicans countered, adding 400,000 to their rolls. Reagan made significant inroads into the Hispanic vote, winning...
...canal treaties did succeed, thanks to the perseverance of Toreros and other Panamanians The General's patience was a rare commodity, but then Torrijos was a rare individual. As Graham Greene notes in his portrait, Getting To Know The General, Torrijos was a lone wolf on a continent noted for brutal military leaders, a general who earnestly preferred democracy to dictatorship, and a man who rarely used force because his skills as a politician rarely made it necessary. His domestic achievements were substantial but his international achievements were stupendous: in a decade of rule before his 1981 death...