Word: white
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whatever that means. His comments on South Africa's blatantly racist policies sound as petty and fatuous as they really are. That bit that said that acts such as the immorality act had "existed all these years to protect colored and black women from being exploited by ruthless white men" generated cynical laughter...
...outdone, Austin sports a 165-ft.-tall, man-made metal tree shining out over a Santa's Village of shops in a turn-of-the-century setting. Atlanta's capitol holds its own 31-ft. Eastern red cedar, bedecked with red ribbons and 2,000 white yarn snowflakes painstakingly crocheted by the state's senior citizens. Boston's golden-domed statehouse backs a Common of white-lit trees. In Sacramento this year, because the capitol building is undergoing reconstruction to strengthen it against earthquakes, only two 10-ft. firs herald the holiday. And in Washington...
...flag to indicate support for the 50 U.S. hostages in Iran. Across the country last week, flags flew. He asked for letters to the hostages. From every corner of the nation, the mail poured forth. The national Christmas tree that he had refused to illumine remained dark behind the White House as a reminder of the hostages' plight. And then, in response to Tehran's renewed threats to put the hostages on trial for spying, he threatened economic sanctions and even a naval blockade to cut off the world's commerce with Iran...
This was Jimmy Carter, President, leading the U.S. in a way that, until the Iranian crisis erupted in November, the former Governor of Georgia had not managed in his three years in the White House. Through those first thousand days, Carter had stumbled and tripped, scored some victories, but lost his way many times. Under his Administration, the economy had worsened, with inflation moving to levels higher than any since the end of World War II and with the threat of a serious recession growing more real each week...
...changed. Riding a wave of patriotic fervor and a degree of unanimity unseen in this country since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, Jimmy Carter has suddenly become, according to the latest polls, the solid choice to be renominated and re-elected to a second term in the White House...