Word: y
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Queens, N. Y., and under London' s Waterloo Bridge, two new museums + chronicle the triumphs and trivia of movies...
...Democratic floor manager, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) said that while the bill is flawed, "at least all of us can go home" and say, "We responded to our constituents and the nation. We have made some effort to address the problem as Republicans and Democrats, and we have set our labels behind...
...will never apologize for the United States of America, I don't care what the facts are" -- a sign of national insecurity, not national self- confidence. To those who love America enough to worry about it, George Bush's ask-not-what-you-can-do-for-your-countr y flag-waving is the opposite of patriotism...
...Protestant. But it's dangerous to assume that the character of New Orleans is derived from the origins of its inhabitants. The New Orleans Mardi Gras was started by Protestant businessmen. The traditional New Orleans neighborhood guy, sometimes known as a yat -- that character who greets people with "Where y'at?" -- is likely to be of the same Irish or German descent as the Brooklyn dockworker he sometimes sounds like. The person I have known who most naturally fit into the pace of New Orleans -- a person whose normal and astonishingly effective way of keeping appointments was to stroll around...
...very encouraged" by Dukakis' selection of Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen (D-Tex.) as his running mate. "His choice of Lloyd Bentsen shows he can be pragmatic when he has to be." He also praised Bush for picking an ideologue as his running mate in Sen. Dan Quayle (R-N.Y...