Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...electronic reminder that this game they call politics isn't so different from all the other games you've watched on a big screen, peering through the cigar smoke and hollering at every score--and then the cheers erupted. But they weren't cheers. Screams would be the better word, or maybe squeals: the sheer delight of a naughty five-year-old who wakes up on Christmas morning to find not the threatened lump of coal, but a shiny toy truck in his stocking. Sweet Mother of God, he's actually winning, the cheers were saying, then tailing...
...party since last spring's electoral disaster. The brooding began in April, when Communist Secretary-General Georges Marchais came under widespread attack in party ranks as the cause of the disaster. Critics charged that party leaders' autocratic exercise of "democratic centralism"-the party's code word for unquestioned rule from the top-had provoked the split with François Mitterrand's Socialists and the splintering of the once confident Union de la Gauche. When Marchais chose simply to blame the Socialists rather than examine in cold detail the causes of the March defeat, six party...
...rebellion is clearly not confined to California, says Yankelovich. People elsewhere feel at least as strongly about taxes. But, he adds, the revolt is not an unqualified conservative backlash or a mindless desire to dismantle government. It is also not a code word for racial prejudice. Nor is it a soak-the-rich movement. Quite the contrary, Yankelovich has found that most poorer Americans still believe that they have a chance to achieve wealth and they do not want the opportunity removed. Nor do they feel excessively jealous of those who have already made it, since they believe luck...
NUCLEAR COSTS. Says David Cromie of Chicago's antinuclear Citizens for a Better Environment: "The most damning word in the English language is 'uneconomic.' " Foes charge that nuclear power plants cost more to build than, say, coal-burning plants, running more than $800 per kw, vs. around $700 for coal. They also argue that nukes operate well below their projected capacities, making the power they generate even costlier...
...Clamshell Alliance had brought a dozen demonstrators to picket the pro-nuclear stance of the governors' association Nuclear Power Subcommittee. State troopers and Boston police kept a watchful eye on the small but noisy stream of protestors shouting, "Meldrim Thomson, Dixie Lee Ray, we don't believe a word you say." They distributed reprints of an article in Rolling Stone by Edward Kohn headlined, "The Government's Quiet War on Scientists Who Know Too Much." They chanted for about three hours, but provoked no confrontations or bad blood, just a lot of disgusted looks from Sheraton windows...