Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...United States is menaced by "twin shadows of international lawlessness and aggression," Republican Presidential candidate George Bush told a Kennedy School of Government Forum crowd last night, in his strongest attack to date on President Carter's foreign policy...
...human animal is goaded by twin appetites so similar that they serve as metaphors for each other-as food writers and Freudians are well aware. Reay Tannahill, a worldly and well-informed Scotswoman, has explored what recorded history tells about both, following Food in History (1973) with this levelheaded history of sex, drawn from sources as various as genetics, architecture, sociology, religion and etymology. As she tells it, the explosive word has a dual connotation: what people do with their private parts, and a 10,000-year-old injustice to women...
Height proved the crucial factor of the contest. Yale's twin towers, 6-ft. 1-in center Margy Hutchinson and Debbie Danner waded through Harvard's considerably shorter defense with ease, banking in 20 points a piece...
...quite simply, the best American man ever to put on skis in international competition. Since the launching in 1967 of the World Cup circuit?a four-month-long series of 15 meets?U.S. men have won only 15 races. Mahre, 22, has won eight of them, and his twin brother Steve has won one. Last year Phil was second in the overall World Cup standings when he went to Lake Placid for a meet. While he was pounding down the hill in the slalom, the tip of his right ski caught one of the gates, and he went down...
DIED. Paul Blanshard, 87, anti-Catholic polemicist and lawyer who bedeviled the church in the 1940s and '50s with numerous lawsuits and such incendiary treatises as the bestselling American Freedom and Catholic Power (1949); in St. Petersburg, Fla. A third-generation clergyman and twin brother of Philosopher Brand Blanshard, Paul was a Congregationalist minister before deciding that "Christianity is so full of fraud that any honest man should repudiate the whole shebang and espouse atheism instead." His broadsides against the church's "authoritarian control over the minds of men," something he equated with Stalinism, and its "unAmerican" involvement...