Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...activity and rhetoric has had a significant effect at home. After the guilt-ridden defeat in Viet Nam and the shocks of Watergate, Carter has given many Americans a renewed feeling that they are standing for something good in the world. He has done this in his own special style, but in the tradition of Wilson, Roosevelt and Dulles, who, in very different ways, affirmed that U.S. foreign policy must have a moral content...
Shifting direction with the swirling and eddying wind, the fire capriciously leapfrogged several of the Spanish-style houses. The $60,000 home of high school Dean Robert Mangus was saved primarily by a grove of avocado trees, which served as a fire screen. Said Robert's wife Jean: "The next morning there was a beautiful sunrise. All we could hear was somebody sobbing and it echoed through the canyon...
...more by what seems to be right by testing and not by how it feels. I'm an analytical sailor." But his restlessness on board and his penchant for consulting everyone on tactical decisions rattled his sailors. Enterprise Crewman Andy MacGowan explains: "The problem with North's style is that things happen so fast in a race. You haven't got the luxury of time." Still, North seems to have settled down in recent weeks, and the crew is, at last, becoming cohesive: Enterprise's execution, marked by sloppiness and uncertainty in the early going...
...Eighteen lawyers were disbarred or disciplined in the Watergate scandal, and D.C. Bar Disciplinary Counsel Fred Grabowsky now says: "Watergate may have been the best thing that ever happened to us." Prodded by Supreme Court decisions, the bar has belatedly begun backing group prepaid legal-service plans, Blue Shield-style arrangements that bring legal aid to middle-income citizens for a flat fee (the United Auto Workers, for instance, has installed such a system for its Chrysler workers). With some exceptions, bar groups have also pushed for expansion of Government legal-assistance programs for the poor (which incidentally employ more...
...four decades ago as a radical New Deal Senator. Democrat Pepper's latest crusade, gingered up by senior citizens' groups like the Gray Panthers, is aimed at halting what he views as discrimination because of age. His argument, delivered in his trademark soapbox-preacher style: "Mandatory retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talent, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system and drives many elderly persons into poverty and despair...