Word: pittsburgher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years historians have spoken of the Civil War as the nation's economic breaking point, the moment when, as Charles and Mary Beard argued 50 years ago, the urban industrial North seized power from the agrarian South in a "second American revolution." Through cliometrics, says the University of Pittsburgh's Samuel Hays, historians have analyzed such production figures as railroad mileage and steel output, and found that the "takeoff points" occurred earlier, in the 1840s and early '50s. Cliometricians also use voting data to learn, say, the cultural differences between Republicans and Democrats. (Ethnic and religious divisions...
...Frances FitzGerald found that textbook publishers, eye on the profits, have learned to package a bland and pietistically harmless kind of book that dutifully records the point of view of every minority that raises its hand, or voice, but gives no coherent idea of American theme or direction. Says Pittsburgh's Hays: "We haven't had a new synthesis of American history since Charles and Mary Beard. Instead, we have had people going off in all these little directions and knowing more and more about less and less. To have somebody come along and put it all together...
...inside the base line, and he's like a god in there. To try to beat him in that range is almost impossible. I think he's two or three levels above everybody else. My playing him is almost like some good high school team playing the Pittsburgh Steelers...
...field of candidates and in the early going, some surprising turnouts by the voters. But the voters proved remarkably hard to predict. On the Democratic side, Ted Kennedy won the blue-collar and the black vote by a heavy margin in Philadelphia but lost both on April 22 in Pittsburgh, on the opposite side of Pennsylvania. In New York, voters disenchanted with Carter gave a victory to Kennedy, while in Wisconsin they streamed across party lines to vote for Reagan, the man ex-President Ford said could...
...when one of its players turns free agent and is hired away by another team. But it appeared that the owners left the bargaining table with a narrow victory on this point, while losing gracefully on pensions and salaries. Admitted Phil Garner, second baseman and player representative for the Pittsburgh Pirates: "We had to give up a great deal to get a settlement. We don't know if it's going to be worth it in the long haul...