Word: whose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...making it easy for draft dodgers. Teen-agers throughout the country circulated petitions demanding equality in the conscription system and urging that religious girls be required to do some useful nonmilitary service for the nation. Unexpected support for the opposition came from the Premier's wife, Aliza Begin, whose two daughters, Hasya, 32, and Leah, 30, served in the Israel Defense Forces. "Why should my daughter be drafted, and someone else's not be?" she asked. "There's injustice in that...
...book or even with the editors in its own medical book division, it would have known that the story was probably fraudulent; experts agree that no mammal has yet been cloned. Instead, the publisher depended entirely on the word of Author David Rorvik, a little-known freelancer whose credentials include naive articles about psychics and faith healers, and newsletters supporting the quack cancer drug Laetrile...
...chief executive upon Ford's retirement at the age of 65 in 1982, lacocca made the mistake of encouraging subordinates to regard him as the dauphin. That did not sit well with Chairman Ford, who thought that lacocca had too many rough edges, and whose company has always been headed by a member of the first family of American industry...
...fashionably dressed in European worsteds and as obviously at ease in a barroom throbbing with used-Ford salesmen as in a hearing room full of Senators. If humans can be said to have automotive analogues, lacocca suggests nothing so much as a Ford Mustang, that stylish-yet-democratic car whose creation is perhaps lacocca's greatest triumph...
...swarmed to the company's Chicago headquarters. There was also a fascinating newcomer on the scene, the European Airbus consortium. Reason for the wooing: United, the free world's largest airline, was preparing to place the first big order for the new generation of supersophisticated jetliners on whose fleet wings air travelers will fly into the 21st century...