Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brinkley, however, disagrees. Instead, he believes the nation's complacency will persist, thwarting the reemergence of an active liberalism. "You would have a hard time convincing me that the 1980s are just a repeat of the fifties," he says. "In the 1950s and sixties issues emerged autonomously with a moral force that just could not be ignored... Today the moral issues of which the Democrats speak have no clear resolutions...
...members of the so-called liberal-left persist in their attempts to ask, demand, cajole, and beg the University to "take a moral stance" or "do the right thing" and divest from companies doing business in South Africa. They forget that America has never seen anything wrong or immoral in making an easy buck...
Conspiracy theories persist about the downed Korean airliner
...that has adopted the construction crane as its municipal bird," the introduction to a fact book about Dallas crows, and it is a fact. A skyline that now looks like a comb on its back with some teeth knocked out will one day be blocked in, assuming the cranes persist. Dallas leaders, boosters to their marrow, want the world to know this. They hope the Republican National Convention next week will give them the stage to get out the message. That message-Dallas is an international city, Dallasites are so community-minded that they paid for the convention...
...book about a minority. On most of its pages, hope prevails. Some of these men have witnessed the very worst that people can inflict on one another; they were among the offenders abroad and the victims where they were born and raised. With such unique knowledge, they persist in believing that life need not be as grim as they have seen it. The vision they have earned by their experience finally transcends race; their dramatic monologues bear witness to humanity...