Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they talked, Carter was attracted by Mondale's deep concern for social issues, a set of beliefs that reflect the hardy strain of populism and reformism that grew up in America's Northern plains. Frederick Mundal, his great-grandfather, emigrated from Norway's Sogne Fjord in 1856 to become a homesteading farmer in Minnesota. The candidate's father, Theodore Sigvaard Mondale, was a farmer and a land speculator who became a Methodist minister before being wiped out in the '20s by a series of misfortunes-including the long and financially draining illness of his first...
...improper evidence before the jury, constitutional rights. The issues get beclouded by all these other things. But fairness and justice shouldn't be sacrificed on the altar of speed." Frank Cox, who has been defending one of the San Quentin Six, has had little time or energy to reflect on the wider ramifications of his ordeal. Anxiously anticipating the trial's end, he says wearily, "I feel like I've got a parole date...
...orbit beaming the sun's power back to earth. On a more mundane level, Boeing has a contract with the Energy Research and Development Administration to develop a 10 million-watt power plant using heliostats-mirror-like reflectors that would catch the sun's rays and reflect them to a central receiving tower where their heat would be used to drive a turbine...
...carefully prepared and as essentially empty as Joe Penner's "Wanna buy a duck?" once was. Only occasionally did a reporter's sharp question throw a candidate off balance. (Reporters live in the conviction, which is not universally valid, that anyone's unguarded remarks more truly reflect his views than responses he has time to think...
...jingo statements, he does not want to declare Cold War II. To a nation that is suspicious of Big Government, wary of grandiose programs and weary of taxes, all three finalists promise to shake up the bureaucracy, stunt the growth of Federal spending and generally practice prudence. Thus they reflect the questioning, skeptical mood of the electorate...