Word: rousingness
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"Thanks be to Papa God and Daddy Reagan!" cried one exuberant islander. Local musicians sang the praises of America to a lilting calypso beat, while other townsfolk sold T shirts emblazoned with the slogan THANK YOU U.S.A. FOR LIBERATING GRENADA. When 653 Americans stepped ashore last week from the Cunard...
Thus did the President answer the political question of questions. Not will he or won't he; that had never been in serious doubt. Rather, the problem was how art fully he would break the news everyone expected. He put on a virtuoso performance, orchestrating a long roll of drums...
From the outset, the premise of Glenn's campaign has seemed questionable. He pitches himself as a moderate appealing to "the constituency of the whole." Yet primaries tend to be dominated by ideological activists, not middle-of-the-roaders. Glenn and company also staked too much on the magic...
For the first time in a long time, Americans will be able to toast the new year with the feeling that it will bring greater prosperity and brighter prospects. With unemployment falling, incomes rising, inflation at bay and shoppers crowding into stores, the economy is entering 1984 on a roll...
At its merciful conclusion, the trip had netted only $1.1 million. The party seemed only tenuously united, and the candidates had trouble rising above the internecine sniping. With one exception: Jesse Jackson stirred audiences at every stop with his blunt style and rousing rhetoric. Even party fat cats paying $1...