Word: astounding
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Dates: during 1982-1982
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...President's carping is especially pathetic in light of the hype that accompanied the 1980 supply-side millenium. In the President's own words of last September, the tax break budget cut bonanza was supposed to usher in "an American Renaissance that will astound the world" a transformation so radical that past Democratic errors couldn't possibly stand...
...Yaffe--or anyone else--to match Koziara's accomplishments in the Ivies would astound most fans. Koziara won the Ivy Player of the Year award the last two years and should be a shoe-in again this season...
...that would primarily benefit blue-collar workers. Convening, appropriately, in Detroit itself, they proclaimed a "new populism" based on supply-side economics. GOP party chairman Bill Brock promised "jobs, jobs, jobs"; the President himself informed the Carpenter's Union several months ago of an imminent "American renaissance that will astound the world; a new era of good feeling in America, a time when jobs will be plentiful and the richness of the country can be shared by anyone who is willing to work." In short, the Right hoped to break into the New Deal coalition by convincing traditionally Democratic workers...
...have things that will amaze you!" he exclaims. "That will astound you!" And indeed there are a couple of amazing, astounding acts. Philippe Petit, the French tightrope walker, does all that can be done on a tightrope but fall asleep; the Gaonas, who may be the best trapeze artists in the world (and who for many years appeared with the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus), force oohs and ahs out of the most jaded spectators; and the Back Street Flyers, six male acrobats from Harlem, show that the most plastic instrument on earth is the human body...