Word: trots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fold this time. But the paucity of real news in Detroit raised questions about whether conventions should be covered so exhaustively. Fewer than half the homes watching TV last week were tuned to the convention; the top audience was Wednesday, when 54% were watching. Asked about this, network executives trot out Cronkite's dictum that the quadrennial spectacle is an important "civics lesson." Arledge of ABC, however, sees an end to the full nightly coverage. "It doesn't make any sense," he said. "It just shows how we can flex our muscles by putting our cameras in front...
...recent years, the backroom jockeys' influence has receded substantially. Now, the horses don't even train for the quadrennial summer races--after all, they only have to trot a few perfunctory laps...
...count-four-and-trot offense jumped out to a six-run lead after two innings. Bobby Kelley opened the nightcap with a long double, then scooted home off a Mark Bingham single two walks later. After two wild pitches and a stolen base, the lead was 4-0, and a Kelley roundtripper with one on in the second upped...
...John F. Kennedy '40 impressed regulars by mopping up in 1960; it's after New Hampshire that the survivors start giving their aides funny looks, wondering who's going to fit in which Cabinet slot. Sometimes New Hampshire just plays the non sequitur: with two hot-to-trot Republicans (Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller) breathing down their necks in 1964, Granite State voters gave an easy victory to Henry Cabot Lodge, then U.S. Ambassador to South Vietnam, of all places, conducting a long-distance (10,000 miles) write-in campaign from Saigon...
...Reagan camp, it was clear that Sears was shifting strategy. The embattled campaign manager now must trot out his venerable war horse. Says Sears: "We're going to be exceptionally active in a news sense." As evidence, the new Reagan reverted to the old last week and attempted to galvanize his supporters with a slashing attack on Carter's foreign policy, which he claimed increased the "chances of nuclear confrontation." As for the President's thinking that it might be possible to negotiate with Iran because of its fear of the Soviet Union, Carter was "either deceitful...