Word: tonic
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...favorite phrases of 1977 will make it to the lexicons; most will wither before the new year ends. Pessimists have a point when they refer to the new excrescences of television ego-talk. But optimists are not wrong when they find clearer days on Capitol Hill and a tonic absence of Viet Nam euphemisms and campus-v.-cops rhetoric. "Things are improving," says TV Pundit Edwin Newman (A Civil Tongue): "Schools are finally doing what they ought to do, teaching the basic English that we have neglected for too long. But," he admits, "the headmaster at one school recently told...
There is no better tonic for a President in trouble than a tour of the horizon aboard Air Force One. Red-carpet welcomes and cheering crowds in far-off places boost his morale and make him a world statesman, not just a politician, to the folks back home. Jimmy Carter prescribed for himself precisely that tonic last September: he was suffering a decline in the polls, and his closest adviser, Bert Lance, was fighting a losing battle for his job. Carter planned to visit nine countries in eleven days, starting Nov. 22. But last week he decided to call...
...tracker's real training comes from years of hunting in the thick oak and hickory woods or gathering ginseng roots, which sell for $75 a pound and are used as a tonic to prolong sexual endurance. Notes Guard Rich Trail, 20: "I've been goin' squirrel huntin' and coon huntin' and ground hog huntin' and rabbit huntin' as long as I can remember." Adds Guard Sammy Joe Chapman, 33, who caught Ray and the last escapee, Douglas Shelton: "Coon hunting at night is good training for tracking down James Earl Ray and those...
...Novorossisk plant mainly supplies the sunny Black Sea resort area, but other plants are coming in the Crimea, Moscow, Leningrad and Tallinn. Pepsi is promoted as a health-giving tonic-an ideal way, as Novorossisk Plant Manager Andrei Oganov puts it, "to quench the thirst, invigorate the body and raise the tone." The chief problem the Russians have had with it is a low rate of bottle returns: despite a 120 deposit included in the 540 price, souvenir-minded Russians have been hanging on to two of every five bottles sold...
...Dole instead of fellow Democrats. Then, too, Mondale has a sense of impending victory-an optimism that was missing during the primaries. Says he: "The issues are cutting with us. The Ford Administration isn't going anywhere. It's dead." The party's new unity was tonic as well. As Mondale noted during a flight from New Mexico to Iowa, "The hostility, bitterness, rudeness, vulgarity-you don't see that this year...