Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Larger-than-life personalities are highly prized television commodities in this campaign, partly in contrast to Carter's low-keyed approach and partly because of the seemingly insoluble problems the nation faces. Kennedy used the word leadership 17 times in a recent speech in Philadelphia. On the Republican side, former Texas Governor and Nixon Treasury Secretary Connally managed to use the word five times in a 4½-minute television commercial that was aired last week across the nation on CBS at a cost...
...favored Senator Robert Griffin of Michigan. He proved surprisingly effective in a generally thankless job, welding the independent-minded Republican Senate barons into a cohesive opposition without making enemies. Says Nevada's G.O.P. Senator Paul Laxalt, Ronald Reagan's campaign chairman: "Nobody has a bad word to say about Howard...
...White House one picks up a fascinating catalogue of tiny refinements, adjustments and changes that Carter's people declare he has made in himself. Some of them: accepting the fact that others often know more than he does, sensing the impact of eloquence in the spoken word, understanding that there need be no conflict between morality and great power, acknowledging that people of wealth and position can help the nation, learning that litigating endlessly and sounding nice is not leadership and that preaching can often do more harm than good...
Another tradition, however, has gone the way of Iranian music and Carmine Galante--Section 18 will no longer be the haven of goal-crazed Crimson hockey fanatics. The problem with putting section 18 in the rink's corner, word has it, is that section 13 would end up...right behind the Harvard bench. And who needs that with a New Era underway? Call this one the Era of Good Feelings. And hope it doesn't end when the season starts...
...word that pops up most often in the interview is "amazing." She calls it "the best thing I've had at Harvard so far." And she's not the only...