Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Engines and tempers ran hot as traffic backed up four miles on Interstate 40 near Forrest City, Ark. Most drivers suspected an accident, but those with CB radios knew better. Up ahead nearly 50 police officers and Murfy, a pot-sniffing dog, were checking out cars in one of the largest roadblocks in recent years. After 22 hours, the team had nailed 489 people on offenses ranging from expired licenses to possession of marijuana. St. Francis County expects to collect $20,000 in fines, and Sheriff Sam Ashworth pronounced the roadblock just about the best thing since sirens for scaring...
More important to the substance of foreign policy, says one subordinate, "Haig has a tendency to stir the pot, then turn that problem over to someone else while he finds another pot to stir." Meanwhile, the Secretary keeps the details of foreign troubles largely to himself, giving his aides inadequate guidance on handling those problems to which he is not devoting his efforts. Indeed, the broadest charge against Haig also reflects his greatest strength: he is a doer rather than a thinker. He is a man of action who learned the operational skills of diplomacy from his mentor...
...melting-pot America of legend, plunging straight into the English language in school was a matter of pride and sheer survival. The pain of learning, and of leaving one's immigrant parents behind, was justified as necessary for progress and assimilation. But by the 1970s, prevailing notions about education and ethnicity had changed. It was believed that the cultural heritage of each student should be preserved. Accordingly, new waves of immigrant children, the majority of them Hispanics, were provided with bilingual education, as the Federal Government prodded schools to give them instruction primarily in their own language until they...
Most campaign promises have a limited scope. A recent candidate for jailor promised his neighbors to buy a new coffee pot and make sure the jail's toilet tissue dispenser was always full. Other aspirants rely on more tested means, like the hopeful who left bottles of bourbon on doorsteps throughout town. And occasionally the elections can get nasty. Last year, the independent candidate for sheriff shot his opponent and continued to campaign from the jail...
...cocoon of Hamilton itself, unwilling to understand the feelings and aspirations of their neighbors. With no help from a newspaper that "exemplified the lack of communication among the sum of Hamilton's parts," the people wander in a stratified world that defies the much-loved American label of "melting pot." The lines are not exclusively economic--though money is the most important divider--but the lines exist, dividing the city into separate and unequal components...