Word: westwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America so young in years; yet we suddenly seem old from responsibility. Just 20 years ago, Poet Robert Frost came to town to recite at John Kennedy's Inauguration: "Such as we were we gave ourselves outright/ . . . To the land vaguely realizing westward,/ But still unstoried, artless, un-enhanced." Kennedy answered: "The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans." Ike huddled in his coat, white scarf up around his neck on that day. When the Inaugural was over, the defeated Richard Nixon slipped down the Senate steps of the Capitol front and disappeared into the dark...
...campaign, of course, was already middle-aged by then, and it still had more than two months to run. But finally, the hundreds of days dwindled down to a precious one. As the shadow of night retreated westward across the continent, Americans awoke on Tuesday to an unfamiliar sound: silence. The speeches had all been made, the plans and programs all recited. Hoarse and bone-weary, candidates for office at every level hauled themselves out of bed; principals in the long drama, they now could merely join the audience for the final act of voting...
...under the quiescent surface, the city remained rigidly divided. The Cambridge Chronicleused jokes about "Paddy" as space fillers; the Yankees used the Irish as domestics and washerwomen; and as the Irish population in East Cambridge swelled and inched westward, the Yankees living on Putnam Hill moved...
...step down from his top government post to make way for a new Premier, former Sichuan province Governor Zhao Ziyang. Hua also made it official that seven Vice Premiers, including the architect of the transition, Deng Xiaoping, would retire from their government posts; among their successors will be the Westward-leaning Foreign Affairs Minister, Huang Hua. But it was the appointment of Zhao that best symbolized the rise of a pragmatic, younger generation to power, as TIME Peking Bureau Chief Richard Bernstein reports...
Shannon's Fifth District encompasses the more liberal Lexington and Concord but curves out westward to include more conservative working-class cities like Lowell and Lawrence. Nearly three-quarters of the district is Roman Catholic, and most parishes either read or posted the letter at Sunday services...