Word: steered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Plainly, Jimmy Carter has been quick to master a lesson learned by many of his predecessors: it is far easier for the occupant of the Oval Office to make a heady splash in world affairs than to steer domestic programs through the churning seas of special interests, congressional egos and conflicting political pressures. In foreign and military affairs, a President can snap out orders and, for good or ill, things happen; his envoys and messages race round the globe...
...Dylan isn't the first idol who built a living room he could ride a horse through. Will Rogers built it and then did it. He even practiced steer roping from the exposed rafters...
Fitzgibbons shot a 76 for his first 18 circuit that placed him in second place. He faltered to an 81 on Friday. His Waterloo proved to be the eighth hole. Fitzgibbons took a double bogey trying to steer the ball away from the out of bounds on the right when he nestled in the left rough instead...
...keep John Connally down. Big John was there in the danger zone of each of the big political storms of the past decade but in each he managed to steer clear of the storm's eye and escape unscathed. After what might have been a tarnishing association with the Johnson administration, he managed to change horses, and is today one of the nation's most prominent and promising Republicans...
...final days of debate, the church rained a storm of telegrams upon the legislators. Uncomfortably, Premier Giulio Andreotti's church-backed, minority Christian Democratic government tried to steer clear of the issue with a stance of aloof neutrality. "Everyone remembers that it was abortion that brought down the last government and caused an early election," explained a Cabinet official, "and no party wants to see that happen again." Still-with a careful distinction between government and party-the Christian Democrats dutifully monopolized the final debate making 13 last-ditch speeches against the passage of the bill, then made...