Word: swath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kevin Phillips, a conservative analyst, predicted the current right-wing rupture in his new book, Post-Conservative America. "The Reagan electorate," he writes, "is an extremely unusual Republican constituency," since it comprises two nontraditionally G.O.P factions: a broad swath of working-class voters as well as the smaller, messianic New Right. Because the deep appeal for the New Right was Reagan's impossible amalgam of "various nostalgias and backward-looking vistas" and "a desire for bold measures," the presidential task of "successfully fulfilling such electoral hopes is likely to be difficult. Hence," Phillips writes, "Reagan's coalition...
...blocks wide into the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Burton also proved to be his brother's keeper: to preserve the seat of his sibling, Democratic Congressman John Burton, he designed a district that jumps across San Francisco Bay, then hooks below the city to take in a swath of Democratic voters in Daly City (see map). Right now the Democrats control 22 House seats and the Republicans 21. Burton created two additional seats to reflect California's population gains. But he still managed to give the Republicans only about 18 safe districts, meaning that the Democrats could...
...only was it simultaneously colder, windier and snowier across a wider swath than anyone could remember, but the harshness seemed to clamp down and stay. On Wednesday a new round of snowstorms rose in Arizona and New Mexico, moved east into Texas and covered the Waco area with up to a foot of snow. A blizzard struck the Great Plains on Friday and the Great Lakes states on Saturday; Midwestern temperatures once more fell into the -20° to -30° range. Snow fell again on the battered Gulf Coast and the Eastern seaboard off and on during the weekend...
...Great Lynn Fire" gutted four banks, three newspapers, 158 factories, 128 homes and 80 shoe companies, the latter reflecting an industry entrenched in Lynn since 1635. That blaze, claims Retailer Barry Zimman, a former president of the Lynn Chamber of Commerce, unexpectedly brought Lynn renewed prosperity. It cut a swath through small outdated structures that were replaced by big brick shoe factories-some of them destroyed in what residents are already calling the "Second Great Lynn Fire...
...such troubles will seem far behind, however, when she takes to the open water, her hull a glimmering swath of royal blue, red and gold, with the royal coat of arms on the bow and the royal cipher on the stern. The yacht's 12,000-h.p. twin-shaft turbine engines are capable of propelling her 5,769 gross tonnage at a sprightly 21 knots. Her 510-ton fuel capacity can sustain a 2,800-mile voyage without stopover...