Word: winging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan's first Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell resigned in 1984, weary of fighting with White House aides over his budget. In The Thirteenth Man: A Reagan Cabinet Memoir, to be published next year by the Free Press, Bell blasts unidentified "mid-level right-wing staffers at the White House" for a more disturbing characteristic: a proclivity for "sick humor and racist cliches." Examples: references to the late Martin Luther King Jr. as "Martin Lucifer Coon" and comments during discussions about the Middle East that Arabs were "sand niggers...
...some offensive spice, Wheaton said he shuffled the line-up, moving freshman Tara Weinstock to fullback, freshman Tracy Hackeling to inside midfielder, and sophomore Jennifer Gifford to wing midfielder...
Republican wingers are also suffering from a dearth of fresh issues compelling enough to mobilize a right-wing populist crusade. The causes that once launched fervent insurgencies do not seem as pressing as they did during the out-of-power 1970s. "The reason there is little thunder from the right," says Burton Pines, vice president of the Heritage Foundation, "is that the atmospheric conditions have to be right for thunder." Conservative indignation is difficult to sustain, even though Reagan has failed to follow through with his social agenda and is about to sign an arms deal with the Soviet Union...
Bork is resigned to the near impossibility of his confirmation. His refusal to withdraw was a protest against the efforts to depict him as a right-wing ideologue. More important, he saw the quixotic effort as a way to defy the politicization of the confirmation process. "For the sake of the federal judiciary and the American people," declared Bork last week, "that must not happen...
Even veterans of the five previous coup attempts found the latest plot to overthrow Philippine President Corazon Aquino alarming. According to army intelligence last week, Aquino was to be the target of an uprising this month led by prominent Right-Wing Politicians Gregorio Honasan, the fugitive colonel whose August mutiny nearly toppled Aquino, and Ferdinand Marcos. One crony reportedly even had a six-seater plane ready to spirit the exiled Marcos from Hawaii to Manila...