Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Veritas Forum is a grassroots idea in that it is organized by students who still care about defining Truth....It is the trail map of those who founded the college...
...nation's first baby-boomer President, Clinton will bring to the Oval Office a fresh mental map of generational impressions. Gone are the Andrews Sisters, Kilroy and the Berlin blockade. In their place come Father Knows Best, Elvis, 1960s folk music (Chelsea Clinton was named after the Joni Mitchell song Chelsea Morning), Vietnam protests, the 1972 George McGovern crusade and Watergate. Despite the politically exaggerated privation of his childhood, Clinton came of age at a moment of exceptional national privilege, when a studious young leader from Hot Springs, Arkansas, could aspire to an elite educational odyssey that carried him from...
...hard to map where America was going when there had been no real assessment of where the country had been. The fall of the Soviet Union came so rapidly that surprise and relief blotted out analysis. Could anything come to pieces so fast if it had not been essentially hollow? Had we been scaring ourselves with bogeys? The evidence is very strong that the "window of vulnerability" that Reagan armed us against was as false an alarm as the missile gap in Kennedy's day and the bomber gap in Eisenhower's. Had we outspent not only our enemy...
...presidency, and the inevitability of his departure had been writ large for days. Still, the pain was intense. Not long before Nixon made that final wave from the door of his helicopter, Alexander Haig, then the White House chief of staff, met with a friend in the shadowy Map Room in the basement of the Mansion. "He will be dead within a year," said Haig of Nixon, having witnessed an emotional wound beyond anything Haig the soldier had seen before...
...map was starting to turn blue, and the bottle was half empty. Joyous Democrats were pirouetting before me, and the night was turning to the old kicking donkey. Swathes of the creatures had circulated out from their encampment in New England, and were chewing grass in the South and West. The Kennedy School's chart showed the Boy Bill well onto the second floor, while Bush had barely clambered up one step...