Word: sedalia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Much more listening will be necessary. Talking to farmers in Sedalia, Mo., Quayle floundered when he tried to explain his opposition to a major farm bill. Asked his view of a complex local agricultural issue, he replied with a joke: "Whatever you guys want, I'm for." That echoed his opportunistic statement to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago that a July vote against the creation of a Cabinet-level Veterans Department was a "mistake" resulting from "youthful indiscretion." He later tried to deny using the phrase, even though it had been broadcast on national TV, then explained that...
Peanuts. Or so says a desperate, despairing physician in The Day After. Even Hiroshima was peanuts compared with the irrevocable thermonuclear slaughter visited on Kansas City and its environs. Lawrence. Sedalia. Green Ridge. They have all been devastated. But this is not some horrible, local nuclear accident. This is worldwide atomic warfare. The missiles have been launched, the bombs have gone off. The global village has been nuked...