Word: nadir
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...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...
...case officers had to publish, so you'd recruit one of the townsmen to go out and pretend to get the news you wanted to print," he said, adding that when the U.S. effort reached its nadir, officers were ordered to stop reporting on the corruption of the South Vietnamese army...
...Dedeurwaerder, comes from Renault. Joining forces with the French was probably the only hope for survival for AMC, a lilliputian in a brobdingnagian land. With sales of $60 billion, General Motors is almost 21 times as big as AMC, whose share of the U.S. auto market reached a nadir of 1.2% last August...