Word: yearlong
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...night, almost as if they were sneaking back. It was an abrupt, surreal transition?36 hours earlier, they had been in Nam, humping through that alien place with too much firepower and confusion and moral responsibility on their backs. Then they were plucked out of their bizarre yearlong excursion, set down in commercial jetliners, the stewardesses passing among them like sweet American hallucinations, Hefner visions, and dropped out of the sky back into an America that had turned ugly. In Seattle, some pus-gut in an American Legion cap used to greet the boys by spitting at them. "Losers...
...honor of his 100th birthday, which fell last week, New York has become a yearlong BartÓk festival, with many major works-including his only opera, the troubling, allegorical Bluebeard's Castle, in a concert version-being done several times over. The Boston Symphony performed the Concerto for Orchestra, the piece it premiered in 1944. The biggest American celebration, though, was in Detroit, where 52 guest artists recently joined Conductor Antal Dorati, 74, a BartÓk pupil, for a twelve-day marathon...
Those arrangements and the safe release of the hostages were cited by Carter's closest aides as a "vindication" of his yearlong hostage policy. They were incensed when they heard some of the new Reagan officials question the agreement's soundness. One Reagan aide claimed that the new President would not have made a similar deal. Asked if Carter had given away too much, the official replied: "Yes. The initial mistake made by Carter was to say that the U.S. would not negotiate with barbarians and then promptly proceed to negotiate with them. That was wrong. This Administration will...
Franklin, who was being hunted by the FBI, was spotted last month selling a pint of blood for $7 in a blood bank in birmingham. Last week he was arrested in Lakeland, Fla. Authorities want to question him about a yearlong series of shootings-in Salt Lake City; Johnstown, PA,; Cincinnati; Indianapolis; Oklahoma and Fort Wayne, Ind.-which claimed the lives of eight black men and two white women and included the wounding of National Urban League President Vernon Jordan in May. All the attacks occured without warning, involved a high powered rifle, and, in four of the assaults...
...F.D.R. Drive on Manhattan's East Side, the American-built car has become an object of derision and jokes. All too many American drivers now consider the cars they once fawned over to be simply too big, too heavy and too expensive. As car sales continue a yearlong slump and the auto industry faces its gravest crisis ever, an increasingly anxious public is asking: Why can't Detroit build more and better small cars? Why is it so out of step with what consumers need today...