Word: nadir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republican moderates and liberals argue that the party's problems stem not from too liberal candidates, but rather from the Republican leadership's drift toward the right. They say the party's fortunes reached a nadir under the leadership of the likes of Gordon Nelson, whom Sears describes as "not only in right field but beyond the foul pole...
...Mike Eruzione's burbling about how much fruit there is for sale at Farmers Market. During the day the network seems determined to pander to the presumed interests of housewives. Thus contests were bypassed for irrelevant visits to a celebrity workout center and the Golden Door spa. The nadir may have been a demonstration by Vidal Sassoon of his hair styles for athletes; on the other hand, the coifs were a smash hit with the Olympians...
...nadir was Memorial Day, normally a flesh-pressing bonanza for a politician. For Mondale, it began in Fort Lee, N.J., with catcalls from the disciples of Lyndon LaRouche Jr., a demagogic conspiracy theorist who is running for President, and went downhill from there. On the Jersey shore, where a sunny holiday attracts upwards of 3 million bathers, Mondale found instead about a hundred hardy souls huddled against a driving rainstorm. The day ended at a hotel in Cherry Hill, where a waitress mistook Mondale for Gary Hart...
...first troubling sign appeared just over a year ago. A small groin pull led to a disappointing fourth in the World Cross Country Championships in Great Britain. A month later he finished fifth in the Rotterdam Marathon. His nadir came in August at the World Track and Field Championships in Helsinki. Fighting off bronchitis, he finished last in the 10,000 meters. The gritty and fiercely proud runner could hardly recognize himself. "I know that wasn't me out there," he said. Salazar took two weeks off, the first holiday he had allowed himself since he was 13. Bewildered...
...sources, providing a list of interesting facts from around the world and establishing a Forum on ideas of national interest. The monthly that had won the 1983 National Magazine Award for General Excellence was going to cut back on its essays and polemics, admit that jounalism was at its nadir, and begin dealing in second-hand short forms and juxtapositions of images...