Word: rousingness
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It was a typical convention-ending scene: thousands of balloons descending toward the packed floor, the band blaring rousing music, the delegates waving small American flags, colored spotlights panning the rostrum, washing over the smiling, happy candidates. But what happened in San Francisco last week was more than a ritual...
It should be a heady, optimistic time for Walter Mondale. The bitter and exhausting primary campaign is a fading memory, and his coronation as Democratic presidential nominee is at hand. It is his golden chance to get the drive against Ronald Reagan off to a rousing start by performing crisply...
Convention planners are allowing roughly an hour for the debate and vote on each of the five minority planks, which are all virtually certain to be defeated. The planners' hope is to get all the controversy settled in an atmosphere of reasonable civility before Jackson mounts the podium on Tuesday...
"We hear the far-off thunder of violent drums. We feel the winds of storms," warned Colombian President Belisario Betancur last week in a chilling speech to government ministers of his Latin American neighbors. His rousing rhetoric referred not to war or natural disaster but to something equally momentous: Latin...
"THE HISPANICS GIANT is awakening" shouts Congressman Robert Garcia (D.N.Y.), either as a threat to obstinate colleagues in the House or as a rousing call to arms to Hispanic constituents in the South Bronx. The statement carries more truth than the metaphoric hyperbole suggests. And never has that been so...