Word: upbeat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that time, Jackson's moral crusade on behalf of the nation's have-nots had lost a good deal of its luster. Appearing dejected and distracted, the normally upbeat Jackson stumped listlessly through New Hampshire in the closing days of the campaign and finished in a tie for fourth, with only 5% of the vote...
...Soviet Union's arms clients are useful in providing valuable information on the strengths and weaknesses of Soviet weapons. The reports are not always upbeat. During the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982, the Syrian army lost more than 390 tanks, including 34 of the modern T-72s. The Syrian performance in the air was no better. Flying U.S.-built F-15s and F-16s, Israeli pilots downed 96 Soviet-built jets; one-fifth were newer-model MiG-25s and MiG-23s. Israeli pilots also wiped out 23 batteries of Soviet-built surface-to-air missiles. The official...
...rhetoric seems to vary with the day and the mood. Still, last week some rays of progress emerged from the murk of suspicion and ambiguity. General Edward Rowny, the chief U.S. negotiator at the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), began the week on what appeared to be an upbeat note by declaring that if the Soviets return to the bargaining table, "we are now in a posi-tion to make a breakthrough." He suggested that the U.S. might trade some of its edge in bombers and air-launched cruise missiles for Soviet cutbacks in its lead in heavy land-based...
...three of her jazz classics (Eight Jelly Rolls, Sue's Leg, Baker's Dozen) and some provocative new pieces that break away from the American nostalgia that is her specialty. Nine Sinatra Songs is vintage Tharp, drenched in '40s sentiment but done so well, with every upbeat affirmation so radiantly realized, that no easy label will stick...
Though camouflage-colored uniforms have been worn by U.S. forces in the field since World War II, the recent surge in sales may be a response to U.S. military actions in Lebanon and Grenada. The symbolism seems more upbeat than it was in the mid-1960s, when college students opposed to the Viet Nam War wore combat gear largely to express their scorn for the military. Today, says Allen Schreck, national sales manager for Schreck Wholesale Inc. in Chicago, a manufacturer of military clothing, "I think many people wear military clothes because they feel proud...