Word: pete
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freshmen infielders Nick DelVecchio at first,Jim Mrowka at second, Pete Rau, who also pitches,and outfielder Dan Scanlan add to the Crimson'sdepth...
...Pete Seeger, folk singer...
...Tower, the former G.O.P. Senator from Texas, should be the nation's next Secretary of Defense. Gorey hustled over to Room 608 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building. But he knew the outcome even before the vote was taken. "After I got there, two Senators, Republicans John McCain and Pete Wilson, arrived," Gorey recalls. "I could see by their glum expressions that they knew Tower did not have the votes...
Later in the debate, Republicans complained about the use of material that appeared in the FBI report and was damaging to Tower. Sen. Pete Wilson (R-Calif) said Tower had been "trashed" by such material when it was leaked to the news media, and said the leakers never mentioned exculpatory information that also appeared in the FBI report...
...some, symbolized visionary political leadership. To others, unmoved by his fascination with Buckminster Fuller's visions of the future and the small-is-beautiful theories of E.F. Schumacher, Brown was a weirdo they called "Governor Moonbeam." After losing a 1982 run for the Senate to San Diego Mayor Pete Wilson, he dropped out of politics and set off on the political equivalent of a penitent's sojourn in the desert. He went to Mexico to learn Spanish, studied Zen meditation in Japan and worked with Mother Teresa in Calcutta. "I had such a negative reputation that every time I stood...