Word: man
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senator Barry Goldwater's warlike remarks about Cuba that cooked his goose in New Hampshire. It was his existential dismay one night in Littleton, as he was drawn through the town in a cart pulled by a Shetland pony. The Senator not only looked like a man imprudent enough to let himself be talked into sitting in a pony cart; he looked as if the pony were in control of the situation...
...near his $500,000 apartment in the exclusive Pierre Hotel. Over the next ten weeks, his relatives and lawyers reported receiving letters-and even a photograph-that supposedly proved that he had been abducted by Italian leftist radicals. But police in the U.S. and Italy suspected that the missing man, Sicilian-born Financier Michele Sindona, 59, had arranged his own disappearance to avoid standing trial in New York on a 99-count indictment for bank fraud and in Milan on charges of swindling two banks of $225 million...
...hands of Lieut. General Peter Walls, commander of Salisbury's security forces, who flew to London last week to join the talks. A tough soldier who has directed the relentless seven-year fight against the guerrillas, Walls is unlikely to permit the dismantling of his 52,000-man force, much less its integration with the 40,000-man Patriotic Front forces...
...Patriotic Front is refusing to implement this reasonable document because the interim arrangements are not to its satisfaction. They want to lift sanctions and pass legislation for a government that will play their tune. This is what I call the law of Moses. Carrington is the type of man who believes he can make no mistakes; he can only deal with the Muzorewas who love that treatment. If we get into the second phase with that sort of attitude, then I'm afraid we're in for a real hard time...
...deal with our country in the way we want. We will abide by what we have agreed, but we at least want to be certain that we get something we can use. We have sacrificed sufficient lives already to push the British and the Salisbury regime to accept one man, one vote. No one ever thought they would accept this...