Word: turned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What I would like the people of this country to do," she told reporters, "is every time they turn out a light, every time they ride a bicycle or car pool, to think about Jimmy and that they are doing this for the country." But Rosalynn was not merely carrying the President's message and bringing his greetings. No less important, she was listening for the President. Said she: "I can get closer to the people than he can, and then I can go back and talk to him about their hopes and dreams." As Carter has often said...
...Jimmy Carter prepared to take office in 1977, he received a memo from Pollster Patrick Caddell advising him to keep on emphasizing the open, anti-Washington style that had helped him win the election. In this way, the pollster said, Carter could turn his narrow victory margin into a broader mandate. The memo soon became known as Caddell's "style over substance" pitch. Somehow, Carter forgot that advice. But last month, when he began trying to rescue his presidency, he turned again to Caddell for counsel, and this time he followed...
...South First Street in Greenfield, Iowa, and left a few yards around the town square, then turn in to the Ideal Café, and toward the back at a couple of tables any workday morning about 9:30, you will find a genuine American grass root...
...third branch of Government, Warren Burger's Supreme Court has avoided the hobgoblin of little minds. It has developed an almost elegant lack of judicial philosophy. This year's graven edict of the majority may turn up next year as a dissent. Observes Georgetown Law Center Professor Dennis Hutchinson: "The bar and the public are left without the ability to predict what the court will do even in similar circumstances. You don't know where you stand with this court...
...There is no American leader of anything like the stature or potential influence of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Now there are a lot of mini-leaders. Irving Kristol is the acknowledged godfather of the [neoconservative] movement. But he probably couldn't persuade a Boy Scout troop to make a right turn, even if you gave him quadraphonic sound. So in that sense he's not a leader...