Word: balled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three weeks ago, at a White House breakfast with foreign policy experts, Jimmy Carter asked his guests whether they thought young Americans should once again be required to register for the draft-though not necessarily be drafted. To Carter's surprise, practically everybody at the table, from George Ball to Eugene Rostow, said yes. Until then, the President had opposed a resumption of registration, but he found himself swayed by the arguments of his breakfast colleagues. As he worked on his State of the Union address at Camp David, Carter decided to include an announcement that the Selective Service...
...Reagan continuing to slip while Bush fails to establish himself as the definite front runner. Then the party, runs the scenario, would turn to tried-and-true Jerry, who now plans to make a series of speeches around the country and claims that he would be "available if the ball bounced one way." Just two days after the caucuses, Ford sounded like a candidate when he sharply attacked Carter. He accused the President of "naively misreading Soviet military and diplomatic intentions." Blaming Carter's "cutting back" of the military, Ford claimed that the President had helped make the Soviet...
...Administration rosily predicts only 10.4% inflation this year, but its 1979 forecast of 7.4% price rises causes doubts about the reliability of the White House crystal ball. Most private analysts see prices increasing at about 11% this year, assuming that a mild economic downturn occurs. Without any recession, inflation may repeat last year's 13%. Reacting to the worry that worse economic news is yet to come, bond prices last week slumped dramatically and yields rose to levels even higher than those set after the Federal Reserve's credit tightening last October...
Constitutionally protected grossness-edible underwear, the vibrators in the drugstore window, massage parlors, sex merchandised in its pervasive richness-has spread the pornographic spirit widely. The Twelfth Night Masque, the oldest private subscription ball in Chicago and hitherto a bastion of Midwestern decorum, has suffered a recent rash of crudity. Last year some guests showed up at the ball dressed as hemorrhoids when President Carter was so afflicted; two years before, when the masque theme was "The Father of Our Country," a number of Lake Shore socialites appeared as penises or sperm. No one proposes calling out a SWAT team...
Only Harvard's Calvin Dixon could come up with a bit of scintillating basketball midway through the period. Displaying his usual wealth of flashy ball handling, Dixon electrified the Garden by taking a fastbreak down the lane and dumping it behind his back to Mark Harris, who laid the ball in for a 13--12 Harvard lead. The Eagles just stood...