Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Defeat also convinced Ford that he must be more assertive. The day after the North Carolina primary, he met with about 100 Texas Republicans amid the Rose Garden's blooming magnolias and promised that "the U.S. [military] is going to be No. 1, as it is." Later he defended his foreign policy before a group of conservative Senators at the White House. But Ford probably will not assail Reagan stridently. Explains an aide to the President: "He's got to pave the way for Reagan and his supporters to jump aboard his campaign at some point...
Meanwhile, the country staggered from one crisis to another. To finance rising deficits, the government printed pesos at a lightning pace, and prices rose almost daily. Dissatisfied workers paralyzed industry with strikes, and terrorist killings and kidnapings mounted. Isabel's reflex response to each crisis was a Cabinet shuffle. In 20 months, she had six Economy Ministers, six Interior Ministers and four Foreign Ministers. Because she could not lead the Peronist movement she inherited, left and far-right factions fell into open warfare...
...children on Post stationery, with which his lair was also plentifully supplied. A convivial man, Robards also passed time swapping jokes with Balsam and Warden, or speculating on the real identity of Deep Throat. At one point they all concluded that he was doubtless a she?possibly Rose Mary Woods or a fed-up Pat Nixon...
Last week Redford showed the movie to a few politicians and a group of Boston journalists who had served as sources during the preproduction phase. Mayor Kevin White proclaimed: "That film is going to have an effect on the election. That film is powerful." Boston Globe Editor Tom Winship rose at an afterscreening dinner to toast Redford as "a fine reporter and a good street...
...weeks Florida and Arizona boasted some of the most elegant of America's unemployed. Locked out of their spring-training camps because of a dispute with the baseball club owners, major leaguers were all over the sunny sandlots at loose ends. The Cincinnati Reds' third baseman, Pete Rose, arrived in his Silver Shadow Rolls-Royce to work out at a West Tampa park normally used by Little Leaguers. New York Mets Pitching Ace Tom Seaver cadged $2 each from a pickup team of ballplayers to buy baseballs for early-March makeshift practice sessions. Like a youthful playground gang...