Word: mosaic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senator from New Hampshire, Gordon Humphrey, found like many of his fellow ideologues that the Carter address was appallingly weak. Liberals like Ted Kennedy were skeptical of the idea of reconstituting the draft in peacetime. Across the House floor there seemed to be chunks and pieces of a national mosaic but nothing holding them together. New Jersey's Millicent Fenwick was most animated when Carter mentioned women's rights. Republicans stirred themselves only slightly above polite applause when Carter promised to continue his vain efforts to balance the budget. Each had his or her interest by which...