Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHILE SECRETARY of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger '38 prepared to visit American naval forces in the Persian Gulf last week, word arrived that an Army helicopter had sunk an Iranian ship spotted sowing mines in the Gulf. The incident proved what everyone has known all along: that the Iranians are responsible for the mines in the Gulf...
...last week, however, Bork said the 14th Amendment should apply to women -- or any individual -- who might be subject to government- sanctioned discrimination that did not pass a "reasonable basis" test. But he sidestepped attempts to pin him down on what sort of discrimination might be "reasonable." Did the word cover mandatory disease testing or higher insurance rates for certain groups, based on statistical evidence? Bork cited separate toilet facilities as one example where sex discrimination was appropriate, prompting Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini, an undecided member, to retort, "Isn't that a bogus argument? We're not talking about unisex...
What might be called the Glib Crib Crisis began when the New York Times revealed that Biden had been guilty of rhetorical shoplifting. Biden's passionate and seemingly personal closing statement in a Democratic debate in Iowa in late August had been swiped without attribution and almost word for word from a Kinnock TV commercial designed to evoke memories of the British class struggle. Where Kinnock's coal-mining ancestors worked "eight hours underground," Biden's somewhat mythical forebears "would come up after twelve hours." Biden in the past had given credit to Kinnock, but in Iowa he introduced...
Even as Coke's management eased Puttnam out, he remained unrepentant: "Do I seem to have upset a great number of powerful people? Yes. It seems that I've done one terrible thing: reinvented the use of the word...
...activists to "hide your strengths" and "pretend to be interested" in general party business. Much of the missionary work was done in evangelical churches, particularly those with Pentecostal practices.* Typical was Debi Nuhn, a teacher who had come 250 miles with her husband Tom and other members of the Word of Life Christian Church. Like Robertson, she said, members of her charismatic congregation were "born-again and spirit-filled." The Nuhns have become involved in politics only because of Robertson...