Word: thousanders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush, who made "a thousand points of light" a significant theme of his campaign for the White House, would not predict how many points would be scored in today's football matchup between Harvard and Yale, the spokesman said...
...Have you never heard of 1968? Does the score 29-29 mean nothing to you? That contest was a college football classic. Are you not moved by more than a century of tradition? Or could it be that you went to Princeton? Ten thousand men of Harvard, to victory today...
...hundreds of sites in Britain and Africa. Graham is mulling bids from Hong Kong for 1990, and after that Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Kinshasa. His doctor hopes he can persist till age 75, but Graham wonders. "To try to hold the attention of a crowd of ten, twenty, thirty thousand people takes a tremendous amount of energy. In the next year I'll know how much it takes...
...DOLDRUMS; FALL RECRIMINATIONS. Why did the Dukakis campaign wait so long to fire back at the negative ads aired by the Bush campaign in August? Because of campaign manager Susan Estrich's demanding tastes, say some of the Duke's admen. "There had to have been at least a thousand scripts in drawers, stacked up all over the place," says one advertising veteran in the campaign. "They were all sent to Estrich, and she killed every one of them." By Labor Day, the sources claim, only two lackluster spots -- both lifted directly from Dukakis' convention speech -- managed to win Estrich...
...admit his error, when France had fallen and the new Prime Minister, Churchill, addressed his imperiled country with an eloquence that was an army in itself. "Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: 'This was their finest hour...