Word: americans
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...American hostages dominated our minds and hearts in 1980, and affected the way we Americans think about ourselves and our role in the world: They are the Men and Women of the Year...
...most common medical reason for sending immigrants back to their native countries. (In fact, out of 12 million or so people who came to Ellis, most during the peak years of 1900-24, only 250,000 were turned away.) Sophie may have been the unwitting object of another American worry: that young single women would become prostitutes. So great was that concern that if a woman claimed she was engaged, immigration officials actually hunted up her fiance and saw to it that they were mar ried before relinquishing control over the newcomer. Authorities wired Sophie...
Ezra Vogel, professor of Sociology, said yesterday he will offer "words of anguish" on American industry's inability to compete with Japan...
...TRUTH, Justice, and the American Way," Doug Marlette says, when asked to describe his politics. Pressed to be more specific, he steadfastly refuses to label himself. "Labels have sort of lost their meaning," he says. "I feel that my values and attitudes came out of going to Sunday school in Magnolia Street Baptist Church. I believe what they taught me, I believe what they taught me in civics class in Maddox Junior High School in Laurel, Miss. I took them seriously." Then he adds, musingly, "I don't know whether they intended that...
Putting things back in perspective, the Steelers are not all washed up yet; they still have a very distant shot at the American Football Conference division wild card berth, and furthermore, Pittsburgh will certainly survive the blow if they do fold. On the street you can already hear people talking about next year's game schedule, whom the Steelers might get in the draft, who will retire and who will be traded. You can hear plenty of personal analyses of the Steeler-Houston game, too--everybody's got their own version...