Word: bedrock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven by sliding down a banister straight into a White House reception. He was wounded and highly decorated as an infantry officer in both World Wars, conflicts that none of his three brothers survived. Roosevelt was an investment banker by profession, a conservationist by avocation and a bedrock McCarthyite Republican by political creed. His death makes Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 95, T.R.'s sole surviving child...
...feminist movement is "entrapped in the bedrock of 'woman is wonderful,'" Wittig said...
...Even in bedrock New England, Eleanor Clark's home territory (Baldur's Gate; Eyes, Etc.), the center no longer holds. In her latest novel, hippies, religious freaks and motorcycle gangs have invaded the hills; developers have subdivided the landscape and dispersed the natives. Everyone is adrift, "looking for something-truth, identity, ripoffs, drug deals, lost dogs, new mates, carpentry jobs, socio-political this and that...
...have a public network like the BBC. But that, he now believes, should have been done more than 50 years ago, at the time broadcasting began. Public TV in Amer ica is now too diverse for planners to consider a centralized network. "You have to build out of the bedrock of existing structures," insists McGill, who is also president of Columbia University...
...sense Carter seems at last to have experienced "his Bay of Pigs," the kind of crisis that historians tell us bares the true stuff of Presidents, forcing them to search out the bedrock of their own convictions, to urge the nation toward the same conclusions, to make decisions that totally involve the presidential mind and heart; decisions that, if waffled later, could produce national trauma and personal political eclipse...