Word: whirlwinding
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Mondale, meanwhile, visited 21 cities and made 22 speeches during the final whirlwind week. He was forced to expend valuable time fortifying core support in such Democratic strongholds as Chicago, New York City and, yes, even his home state of Minnesota. Like Reagan, he reached back to the battle-tested traditions of his own political experience, reveling most notably in the torchlight parade through downtown Chicago that has been an election-year custom for Democrats since 1948. Flanked by the leaders of the city's two feuding factions, Mayor Harold Washington and Alderman Edward Vrdolyak, Mondale basked...
...sure my temperament or my conscience is made for that." Last week, having finally made it to the center of the ring, Israel's new Prime Minister was working hard to deal with his country's pressing economic and military problems. During a whirlwind trip to Washington, undertaken only three weeks after he became the leader of Israel's government of national unity, Peres visited President Reagan and other Administration and congressional leaders, and was cheered by what he found...
Troubling her too is an imbalance she detects in the whirlwind of press reports. Among the examples she cited were the screaming headlines in local newspapers about peeling paint and other minor building violations in properties managed by Zaccaro, despite a solid endorsement of his record voiced by a New York City housing official. As she put it: "Over a number of years, P. Zaccaro Co. [the firm founded by his father] has managed thousands of buildings, been involved in probably thousands of sales and maybe tens of thousands of leases. With all that volume, if you want to question...
...reason for this gingerly approach was that the Mondale team by then had evidence of Ferraro's stubborn independence: she had sternly and successfully resisted efforts to tie her to a whirlwind August campaign schedule that she felt would be premature. Mondale and his aides feared they could not predict how she would react to heavy pressure on the financial disclosure issue. They also insist that Mondale felt confident such pressure would prove unnecessary: he had seen both Ferraro's and Zaccaro's tax returns, was convinced that the couple had nothing damaging to hide, and trusted...
Politics and protocol weighed heavily on the mind of Canada's new Prime Minister, John Turner, 55, as he sped home from a whirlwind visit to London. He had gone there to see Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and to ask Queen Elizabeth II, who is also Canada's Constitutional Monarch, to postpone a two-week tour of Ontario, Manitoba and New Brunswick that was scheduled to begin last week. The Queen's assent allowed Turner to make a much awaited announcement: Canadians will go to the polls on Sept. 4.* The federal election was needed, he said...