Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During her husband's term in the White House, Rosalynn Carter was often characterized as a "steel magnolia." In her autobiography, First Lady from Plains (Houghton Mifflin; $17.95), to be published early next month, she does little to defrost that decidedly cool image. By her own account, she is a tireless campaigner and a more cunning strategist than the 39th President. "I am much more political than Jimmy and was more concerned about popularity and winning re-election," she says. "Our most common argument centered on political timing...
These types of mines have a magnetometer that detects disturbances when heavy steel ships pass overhead. If the disturbance causes the magnetometer to reach a certain threshold, a jolt of electricity from a battery sets off the plastic explosive. After about six weeks, experts believe, the battery loses power and the mines become inactive. Because the mines were placed in deep channels, the explosions are unlikely to cause serious damage to ships. But those familiar with the operation say that "they will crack a seam in the ship, shake things up and knock people around." That is enough...
...that had worked, assess the fumbles, analyze the opponent's weaknesses and plot a second-half strategy to win the Democratic presidential nomination. Walter Mondale looked back at the grueling, wildly erratic first half and declared in Philadelphia: "I have shown that I have the guts and the steel necessary to fight back under tough circumstances." Looking toward the imminent showdown, Gary Hart vowed at a pep rally in Denver: "When we come back out for the second half, you're going to see some long bombs, you're going to see some end runs...
Hart's Monday, meanwhile, publicly began at the Philadelphia docks for a 7:30 a.m. mingle with longshoremen. He flew off to Allentown and Bethlehem to stroll through a steel plant and hold a press conference, but engine problems kept him from leaving for Pittsburgh on time. While a pair of small Learjets were being hired, Hart felt obliged to caper around for photographers (he posed in a cockpit wearing dark glasses and pilot's cap) and to discuss the Democrats' alleged indulgence of black antiSemitism. At Pittsburgh's airport (four hours after Mondale had touched...
Mounted on stallions of steel, desert tribesmen fight...