Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been through so much already, he feels, that he does not see how this could be worse. "Maybe I'm wrong," he says. "Maybe it will be a lot worse than I think." Friends say that Kennedy is fatalistic about his life and about the special danger that he faces in running for President. For that reason, his family and closest friends refused their counsel when he asked for advice about getting into the race. To an outsider, one of them would admit only, "It's really scary." Says Kennedy: "I know how they feel. That...
...carrying a concealed pistol. Recalled Udall: "I went ahead, but I looked into every face and wondered, 'Is this going to be the one?' " Udall told this story not as an example of courage-or foolhardiness-but to illustrate how little effect the danger of assassination has had on presidential candidates' behavior, even after two decades of violence that have seen the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the crippling of George Wallace and two near misses on Gerald Ford...
Despite widespread feeling that the danger should bring a change in the traditional politicking, candidates have not abandoned the face-to-face style-open motorcades, speeches from unprotected podiums, handshaking forays into excited and surging crowds...
...viPs looked on, two muscular men pranced about, slashing Malacca canes through the air to limber up their muscles. They were convicts, who would be rewarded for successful floggings with extra rations. A doctor stood by, empowered to stop the beatings if a prisoner's life seemed in danger...
...danger, of course, is that such youthful deep dependence on drink may lead to chronic alcoholism, a condition that remains fairly rare on campus. But early habits have a way of hanging...