Word: mount
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Speaker would be undermined. Like Ed Meese, he would probably hang on to his job for a while for appearances' sake, then quietly resign (no one expects him to leave the House). The Speaker still has time to turn that glum scenario around, but he will have to mount a more convincing defense than any he has been able to produce to date...
...Radcliffe lightweight eight won its race on the Charles Saturday with a time of 7:56, defeating Mount Holyoke and Wellesley by margins of more than 15 seconds...
...tour is over, but the visitor should stay for the day in Harlem, beginning with a saunter down Seventh Avenue to the Mount Morris Park historical district. Girding the rocky park, today named for Marcus Garvey, are rows of beguiling Victorian houses. Head north on Fifth Avenue for an unpretentious lunch of pork chops and collard greens at La Famille...
...conversation, as if it were a pipe, and the canvas tote he uses as a briefcase, and his habit of loudly cracking his knuckles. On top of that there are the Old Testament beard and the preacher's voice that make him seem like Moses come down again from Mount Sinai to deliver commandments 11 through 20. Smoking? It's an addiction that will kill you. Sex? Only in marriage. AIDS? The best preventive device is a monogamous relationship; the second best, a condom. Deformed newborns? Save them. Sex education? In the earliest grade possible...
Wright on most counts is basically honest and decent. He has the right to shout into the rising storm that is battering him that he should not be judged guilty until he is tried. It is logical for him to mount a tactical defense detailing dates, times, dollars, his service to the House for 34 years. These are the tidy rituals of comradeship and parliamentary procedure that are so dear and so binding to those denizens of the Capitol. Wright is correct that the media convulsion about human rectitude or the lack of it is unrealistic, often unfair...