Word: nadir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wind-chill table starts at still air (0-m.p.h. wind) and ranges up to winds of 50 m.p.h. While 20° on a windless day can be quite tolerable, a 20-m.p.h. wind makes the received effect of that temperature equivalent to -9° without wind. The arctic nadir on the scale: at -45°, a 50-m.p.h. wind creates the equivalent of -128°-a sensation that is not totally unfamiliar to many Americans this year...
...some respects, the new police mood seems anomalous. It has been years since they heard the radical chants of "Pig!" Those insults-combined with the long list of Warren Court rulings in favor of criminal defendants-marked a nadir for police morale. Since then, however, the eight-year Republican Administration has pumped $5 billion through the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, much of it to improve local police departments. Under Chief Justice Warren Burger, the Supreme Court has decidedly tilted back toward the prosecution side. By many measures, the policeman's lot today would seem to be a happier...
...self-interest that encouraged young Americans not to sacrifice their early adulthood to social causes like the Peace Corps but rather to the womb-like safety and promised material rewards of professional school. Gerald Ford has only nudged our national self-image up a small notch from the Nixonesque nadir; today we are encouraged to be the kind of team player for mediocrity that offers a warm tribute to Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz after his unconscionable remarks about blacks...
...there began what might be called the Preoccupation of Britain. It was on that misty day at the nadir of World War II that the U.S. 34th Infantry Division lurched ashore in Belfast, vanguard of the first foreign army to disunite the kingdom since 1066 and all that. The Americans were to be the matter and yatter of Britain for the ensuing three years, in which some 2 million G.l.'s bought and bulled their way through England's gray and rationed land. In turn, the Yanks were in a real sense repossessed by the nation they...
Blanchard fretted that Fair's tough-guy approach might reverse the gradual improvement of morale from its post-Viet Nam nadir of racial conflict, drug abuse, alcoholism and boredom. A former commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, Blanchard, 55, is no cream puff either. But by contrast with Fair, he adopted a more relaxed attitude toward his forces, encouraging his troops to take time off, learn German and meet local people. He approached enlisted men as citizens in uniform...