Word: sideness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Each side found satisfaction in the results. The meaning, as Presidential Press Secretary Jody Powell saw it: "Anyone who wishes to challenge the President had better be prepared for a long, tough fight every step of the way." Added a Carter strategist: "This showed we're in good shape organizationally." But Sergio Ben-dixen, executive director of the Florida draft-Kennedy committee, saw a different significance: "We proved we have strength. But it's very tough to fight the incumbent without a real candidate. With him in it, we would have swept Florida...
Jackson was hardly fazed by the criticism. Continuing to defend the P.L.O. as "a government in exile," he met Jordan in Chicago, and Jordan said afterward that "we agreed to disagree without being disagreeable." Others on Jackson's side were less cordial. The Rev. Wyatt Tee Walker, a onetime aide to Martin Luther King Jr., charged that Jordan had succumbed to "the plantation syndrome." The Rev. William Augustus Jones, president of the Progessive National Baptist Convention, sneered that the Jordan-Hooks statements proved that the Urban League and N.A.A.C.P. operate under "financial constraints imposed... by their white members...
...last ten years, substance has ruled. The voters in this small city split fundamentally over two basic issues--continued controls on rents and regulation of condominium conversion. For more than a decade, almost every election flyer has featured discussions of those issues. Factions line up on each side, clearly defining their stands--the Rent Control Task Force boosts tenant's rights, The Cambridge Home Owners and Taxpayers Association demands that everyone on its slate of candidates vote against rent control. And the system works. For ten years, liberals have held tenuous majorities on the council, just enough to insure that...
...Weld--oar in one hand, beer in the other--to cheers from the crowd that remained. Only now did I notice that the 1979 Head had been the last race for my sliding seat, which cracked and lost a bolt at the finish line. Somebody was on our side. In fact, we had finished in 19'33", not particularly good for the Championship Eights, but better than our best practice time of 28 minutes and ahead of Colgate, the last boat to finish the Head. They came a long way to finish last, but I know nine members...
...think taking time off from Harvard is good in the respect that you can see how the real world functions," Eichner says. "You get a chance to deal with a more human side of life instead of just working within the tight narrow framework formed by studies and sports...