Word: modernes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even the most important presidents in modern American political history could not be said to have garnered their uberpolitical stature until they reached office...
After New Hampshire, the Democratic contest remains a tangled wrangle. The current consensus of party professionals is that no candidate is likely to win a delegate majority before the primary and caucus season ends in June. But that does not necessarily mean a modern-day version of a brokered convention, where a cabal of Democratic leaders finally gather under NO SMOKING signs to award the nomination to Mario Cuomo...
Franklin Roosevelt was such a leader, forging the coalition that became the modern Democratic Party. Ronald Reagan is another. For almost eight years, he has defined both parties: a disparate array of Republicans became Reaganauts all, and true Democrats of various stripes united as resisters of the revolution...
...utters a sharp "Vamonos!" as the black carriage with a torn leather awning rolls away. The scene could have come from Cabbages and Kings, O. Henry's collection of picturesque short stories set in turn-of-the-century Central America. But this is no quaint, fictitious land. This is modern-day Nicaragua...
...leader admitted that perestroika had caused confusion, he proclaimed, "We are not retreating one step from socialism ((and)) everything which has been won and created by the people" since the triumph of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in 1917. Yet realizing Lenin's original vision, said Gorbachev, meant adapting to modern times and changed "international conditions...