Word: maps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weather reporters on occasion fall into a sort of self-satire. After the usual "happy talk" clowning with his colleagues, one announcer lapses into a discussion of the "good guys" and the "bad guys," which are the high and low pressure systems. They are represented on the weather map by happy and sad faces, looking like the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy...
...updating on their own state primary. Their focus was not on a local luminary but on Walter Cronkite, who had come to the provinces and set up his majestic broadcast booth. His noble gray head appeared at the bottom of the screen, a gigantic red, white and blue map of the U.S. spread out behind him. Not since George C. Scott opened the movie Patton had such a dramatic entrance been filmed. There were quiet gasps among the appreciative Chicagoans...
Violence reached such an alarming level that Lord Soames, the British caretaker Governor, issued a map showing "red" and "blue" zones in which he adjudged that it was "impossible" or "difficult" for parties other than Mugabe's to campaign because of intimidation by his guerrilla forces (acronymically called ZANLA). At least 2,000 of Mugabe's men have refused to enter the 14 cease-fire assembly points set aside for guerrillas returning to Zimbabwe Rhodesia from camps in neighboring states...
...Sunday morning, pointing to a U.S. map with little black dots denoting likely Soviet targets-concentrated, of course, on the Northern Atlantic seaboard-the speaker seemed as confident about the prospect of a nuclear holocaust as other preachers are about the Second Coming. "Our government is arming and preparing for nuclear war," said Gene Lagque, retired rear admiral, adding that military men operate on the premise that war will come...
...just to shut us up," jests Jack Germond, a political columnist for the Washington Star. In addition, the benefits to local boosterism were manifest. "You've got people who think Iowa is next to Idaho or Ohio," said the Republicans' Roberts. "This helps put us on the map." Or, as CBS Correspondent Bruce Morton put it: "There is no question that in Iowa, column inches and air play are more important than delegates. The real prize...