Word: worded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California Governor Ronald Reagan convened his expected press conference at noon E.D.T., then proceeded to stun his party and the nation with the unexpected: his bold, perhaps desperate gamble for needed convention votes by naming liberal Pennsylvania Senator Richard Schweiker as his vice-presidential running mate. By midweek, the word was flowing in by telephone and telex from our correspondents: Reagan had angered conservatives; yet he had failed to attract moderates. His bizarre gamble had not worked. TIME's editors decided that the sudden rush of events demanded cover treatment. With that, Senior Writer Ed Magnuson quietly began work...
...expected assault from conservative supporters-yet they were jolted by its ferocity. Fumed Mississippi Congressman Trent Lott: "He blew it. Reagan took a long shot, and it isn't going to pay off." Later Lott switched to Ford. North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms had been given advance word in a phone call from Reagan at 9:05 p.m. Sunday. "I looked at my watch because I wanted to know the time in my life when I was most shocked." Helms called the ticket "a coalition with the widest wing span in all history" and said he might fight...
...coalition for victory." Even a longtime Schweiker friend and former campaign manager, Drew Lewis, urged support for Ford. James Stein, 21, once a Reagan admirer, said Reagan had lost "credibility" with him. "At least I know where Gerald Ford stands, and I can take him at his word...
Unfounded Fears. In the West, and most notably the U.S., where President Ford has banned the word detente from his political year lexicon, the anniversary is being all but ignored. One reason is that some of NATO's initial hesitations have been justified: the gains of Communists in Southern Europe are partly attributable to the post-Helsinki mood, in which the threat of international Communism has appeared to be further diminished. Yet the West's main fear, that a Helsinki-inspired euphoria would lead to sharp cutbacks in defense spending by NATO nations, seems so far to have...
...sure, this Arden is not a realistic one; it is semi-magical. But whatever it is, the forest must contain greenery (the very word 'forest' occurs 23 times in this play, whereas no other Shakespeare play uses it more than thrice). The text mentions not only mossy oaks and osiers but also olive and palm trees, which are both evergreens; and it cites using the shade of boughs and bushes...