Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Helms rode in the car behind Hitler in a motorcade through Nuremberg, where the frenzy spilled down every street. At the Burg, a medieval castle, Hitler came out on the battlement for one of his rare interviews. Helms was seized by conflicting emotions. He looked down on Hitler, who was smaller than Helms had thought. Hitler's handshake was firm. But his personality was not hypnotic. His eyes possessed no power, as the myths had it. Hitler's skin was coarse and his mustache slightly gray. His bottom teeth were goldplated, which made Helms suspect they were false...
Blanchard's personality--or lack thereof--has a lot to do with the question marks. He too came from oblivion this summer. But instead of rising as Headlee did on the basis of a mesmerizing brand of politics, the four-term state congressman rode the wave of carefully arranged labor and business endorsements. Slightly unkempt and a failed public speaker, Blanchard is a 40-year-old throwback to Democrats of the past. With a crucial role in the federal government's Chrysler bailout as the single feather in his cap, Blanchard has promised massive public works projects, '60-style...
RONALD REAGAN has become a liability to the Tennessee Republicans who rode his coattails two years ago. Cissy Baker, the 26-year-old daughter of Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker. is seeking an east Tennessee congressional scat: she spent the first month of her campaign dodging offers of help from Washington, which of late had given Tennessee little more than its 11 percent unemployment rate. She finally appeared with the President in a national GOP commercial last week, but even then, she demurred from supporting the Administration's economic program. The TV ad was merely evidence of her ability...
Hans-Dietrich Genscher and the Free Democratic Party pledged themselves to four more years of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's government and rode his coattails to victory in 1980. Then the F.D.P. started maneuvering toward a coalition with the Christian Democrats. By violating the trust of the voters, the F.D.P. displayed a lack of character. This breach, more than any yearning for stability, has caused our political emotions to rise...
...bathroom, a convenient cubicle with rows of electrical outlets installed when Lyndon Johnson once found electrical devices plugged into all the existing ones. As I looked at myself in the mirror, I wondered if I had aged so much as President or was just exhausted. As I rode to the Capitol and sat through the Inaugural ceremonies, the hostages were always on my mind. I still had no assurance that my efforts would be successful, and no way to know that this would soon become one of my happiest days, even happier than that day exactly four years earlier when...