Word: m
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barely a year before the first primaries, the already crowded Republican presidential school is drawn toward Carter like sharks to blood. One after another, the G.O.P. hopefuls last week attacked what now seemed their best immediate target, Carter's foreign policy. Ronald Reagan led the way: "I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into the escape helicopter." Former Texas Governor John Connally charged that the coming SALT ΙΙ treaty will do nothing "but legitimize...
Reaching these conclusions brought only limited satisfaction. It's nice to understand why you face 30 years of intolerable boredom and frustrations, but it hardly eases the pain. Two years after arriving, I'm about to leave...
With Mardi Gras dead in all but name, there was little celebrating in carnival town. Police huddled in small groups around headquarters and the precinct stations while national guardsmen carrying M-16 rifles patrolled public buildings. On Canal Street, New Orleans' main boulevard, the bleachers erected for the parades stood empty, bereft of bunting. The jazz clubs and hookers on Bourbon Street were having a hard time keeping up spirits-or selling them. "It's our first time in New Orleans and we're heartbroken," mourned Robin Holabird, 25, who had come from Reno with her husband...
...came to this sport to avoid commercialization," says Jonathan Baum, a Manhattan lawyer. "It was an unpleasant shock for me when I first skied on a groomed trail. I said, 'Hey, I'm not the first person to be here...
...will hurt me will be an injury." Very much his own man at 19, Nehemiah is frank enough to say that he likes the adulation and attention that have distracted so many young athletes on the way to the Olympics. Says the finest hurdler in the world: "I'm going to take advantage of it while I have it, because it's going to hurt the day it leaves...