Word: waved
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suddenly remembered something she had repressed for twelve years: "They didn't want me to be nominated, and after my name was placed in nomination, Pierre Salinger came and took out our floor telephone." Mondale's choice of a woman, she said, "felt like a big wave that swept away all the disappointments and defeats of the last twelve years...
...political consultants say it is important that the nation's first coed ticket present itself as a professional team, not as a couple. For the convention finale, Mondale's advisers worked out a set of guidelines: Mondale and Ferraro would put their arms around their respective spouses, wave with their free arms, and not embrace each other. "If some silly people want to address us as a couple, that's up to them," says Ferraro. "I'm going to be the Vice President, and he's going to be the President. And that...
...contemptuous assumption" that Mondale could appease Black opinion by seeming to consider more moderate Blacks like Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode. Taunted Jackson: "You know, any Black face will do, and get the same response from the masses." He even managed to wave a red flag at the Jewish community while speaking on an entirely unrelated subject. Discussing news coverage, Jackson criticized the White press for "Aryan arrogance," using a word associated with Hitler...
...band will strike up Happy Days Are Here Again, the party leaders will clasp hands in the traditional victory salute. Banners will wave, rhetoric will flow. When the Democrats meet next week in San Francisco to nominate a ticket for the 1984 election, they will strive mightily to stage a tableau of unity and shared purpose...
Last week in Brownsville, Texas, Mennonite Lay Worker Stacey Lynn Merkt, 29, became the first member of the sanctuary movement to be prosecuted by the Federal Government for aiding illegal immigrants. Others await trial, and despite fears that the Merkt case signals a wave of prosecutions, sanctuary leaders plan to continue their work. Says the Rev. Gregory Dell, whose Wheadon United Methodist Church in Evanston, Ill, is sheltering two Salvadorans: "The basic style of churches is not to break any more laws than necessary. But we're not going to abandon refugees who are the subject of injustice, regardless...