Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game went on, we got mad that the ball had not gone in," Brynteson said. "After we scored, we all thought 'well it's about time...
...Carter pushed out of the race by pressure from the party and the dismal evidence of the polls. Late last week the President was hit with the most staggering poll news to date: an Associated Press-NBC News survey indicated that only 19% of the Americans polled thought Carter was doing an excellent or good job. That was the lowest approval rating for any President since such polls began in the 1930s - including Richard Nixon's 24% just before his resignation...
...Republican officeholders were hoping that Carter would head the ticket. Said Weicker: "If Kennedy runs in Connecticut, he threatens to take the whole shebang with him. He would win in a landslide." Complained White House Press Secretary Jody Powell of Weicker: "Courtesy is a two-way street. I always thought that anyone who was born rich would also have been brought up with some manners...
President Carter told Hispanics last week at their annual congressional caucus dinner: "I freed them because I thought 25 years was enough." Amid both catcalls and cheers from the audience, he added that the four nationalists had been jailed for their criminal acts, not their political ideas...
...thought we had given so-called 'punk rock' a bad enough name--what with the chains, the leather and Sid Vicious' 'suicide'--but then the critics turned around and called it 'new wave.' We thought disco would bring home the bacon, but what has John Travolta done for us lately? We thought the days of the early 1970s would go on forever, the time when we could deal with a few big names like Elton John, Wings, Lead Dirigible, whoever. But we didn't have it wired...