Word: welter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that her book on spiritualism, Out on a Limb, would become a bestseller; that a revamped version of her nightclub act would score a hit on Broadway. Anything can look possible to a woman who once danced an entire ballet on a broken ankle. But that almost greedy welter of ambitions might have seemed outlandish if it had been voiced in public by an actress whose early glory had faded in bad films and a scattershot career and who had said that politics or travel or a search for self-awareness meant as much to her as performing...
...Paul Vallone walk, a passed ball and a Bruce Welter singe gave Harvard a 5-4 edge in the bottom of the drizzly, sub-40:degree eight inning at Soldiers Field. After Bobby Kay popped out and Jim DePalo reached on an error, Umass Coach Dick Bergguist called on reliever Steve Allard...
...this welter of charge and countercharge, Hart can no longer portray himself as financial underdog to the lavishly funded Mondale. Quite the contrary; it is Mondale who is now being forced into some unaccustomed penny-pinching. Hoping to lock up the nomination early, Mondale spent heavily on the early contests; by the end of March his outlays will total about $12.5 million, and federal law permits him to use only $7.7 million more before the convention. Finance Chairman Timothy Finchem insists that will be enough to stage an effective drive through the late primaries and caucuses, but in Mondale...
...host of politicians, antipoverty groups and religious organizations swiftly denounced the findings. Their reaction blighted White House hopes that the investigation would be accepted as the "no-holds-barred study" President Reagan had requested. He created the commission last August amid a welter of complaints that the deep cuts in federal food programs had contributed to an alarming rise in hunger...
Bishop's moderation may have been his undoing. For months, Grenada had been rife with rumors of conflict between the Prime Minister and his most senior colleague, Finance Minister Bernard Coard, a doctrinaire Marxist. After a welter of contradictory reports last week, it seemed that Coard had toppled Bishop in a power struggle. General Austin strengthened that impression in a long radio address in which he chastised Bishop for failing to share power with Coard under a policy of "collective leadership...