Word: summer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concept of the roles of Government and business. They view him as a corporate statist with proclivities toward Big Government, one who would enhance federal power along with business interests. When Connally met with a group of new-right leaders in a converted garage near the Capitol this summer, they grilled him on this point and also about his support of the Equal Rights Amendment and his refusal to support an antiabortion amendment. Connally answered the questions as bluntly as they were delivered, defending his positions...
Connally hopes his forceful style will help him cut across ideological lines and win support from blacks and workers who have opposed him in the past. At a building trades convention in New Jersey this summer, his rousing speech had union members cheering. Labor leaders passed the word to hold back on providing him many more such forums. He campaigned last month in black and ethnic neighborhoods of Providence, and has hired a Chicago firm to devise a strategy to lure black votes...
...brilliantly sunny, almost windless day at the little fishing village of Mullaghmore overlooking Donegal Bay on Ireland's northwest coast. Lord Louis Mountbatten, 79, the distinguished war hero, diplomat and elder statesman of Britain's royal family, was summering as usual at his turreted stone castle, Classiebawn, in the green hills. Dressed in faded corduroys and rough pullover, Mountbatten was a beloved and folksy figure around Mullaghmore, where he had vacationed for 35 years. He could sometimes be seen standing knee-deep in the waters offshore, fishing for shrimp, and occasionally took local children for a ride...
Suddenly, an enormous explosion shattered the summer stillness of the harbor. The blast blew the boat "to smithereens," in the words of one eyewitness, and hurled all seven occupants into the water. Nearby fishermen raced to the rescue. Still breathing, Lord Mountbatten was pulled into one of the boats. He died, his legs nearly blown off, almost immediately. Two Belfast doctors on holiday hastily set up a makeshift aid station on the wharf, using old doors for stretchers, broken broomsticks for splints and ripped-up sheets to bind up wounds until ambulances arrived to rush the victims to Sligo General...
...union of all four of nature's basic forces -gravitation, electromagnetism and the nuclear strong and weak forces. Predicted Israeli Theorist Haim Harari of the Weizmann Institute of Science: "Five years from now when we look back, we will all agree that the gluon was discovered in the summer...