Word: mud
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guilt by association" that characterized the red-baiting tactics of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the late 1940s and early 1950s, Eagleton charged that "here in 1977 we have a newer technique-guilt by accumulation-every day someone will hurl a charge at Mr. Lance and a little bit more mud gets on the character and reputation of Mr. Lance." He criticized Ribicoff and Percy for spreading the vague claim that Lance had been accused of new illegalities-but never revealing what they were. In a closed session of the committee, the two leaders briefed the other Senators on what they...
Torrijos, son of rural schoolteachers, frequently visits the countryside and delights in slogging through waist-high water in the jungle. "Once in a while," he has said, "a leader must get his feet wet and mud on his boots." But his laws against dismissal of workers and eviction of tenants for nonpayment of rent have contributed to the country's economic problems. Panama's foreign debt is now $700 million, while unemployment has soared to 12% nationally, and is much higher in urban areas. The economy has remained virtually stagnant since...
...slow, silent accuracy, the camera picks out the details of the conquistadors' movement: the absurdity of their costumes in the humid sun, their lack of respect for their Indian slaves, their devotion to the cross, their reliance on weaponry, their confidence. No one talks as they slog through the mud: the audience is left to discern on its own the nature of their journey, to predict their success from the stand-point of uninformed, unaided observers...
...beer market by 1985. Traditionalists are full of memories of things Pabst, and no newfangled "light" beer with fewer calories and indistinct taste will substitute for the Real Thing. Those who like the lighter brews are quick to criticize the weighty liquids that they equate with mud...
...coast of Iceland. Heezen, who joined the Lament Geological Observatory when it was founded in 1949, helped discover and map the 47,000-mile-long globe-girdling system of ridges and rifts-a landmark in geology. Heezen also studied the role of turbidity currents (underwater rivers of mud) in shaping the contours of the sea floor, and theorized that glassy particles called tektites in the ocean sediment were the result of the collision of meteorites or comets with the earth. Heezen co-authored a book titled The Face of the Deep...