Word: festooned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even as he bathed in a gusher of success sweeter than any he enjoyed 30 years ago in the oil business, George Herbert Walker Bush showed some of the symptoms of doubt and caution that festoon his political record. On primary night and the morning after, he avoided the ritual TV interviews. No sense in risking a gaffe, his advisers reasoned. In the privacy of his Houstonian Hotel suite, Bush impressed one aide, Peter Teeley, as oddly subdued. Bush seemed burdened with the realization that the nomination was at hand, that a new and even more critical phase was imminent...
...counteract this perception, most of the Democratic candidates are investing heavily in what can be called the "muscle factor." Like novice sportswriters, they festoon their rhetoric with images denoting oomph. They strain to adopt positions that appear to be gutsy. Richard Gephardt promotes his restrictive trade policy with the argument that a "made-in-the-U.S.A." approach will "score knockout victories again." Free traders, he says, "lack backbone." Joseph Biden uses the America's Cup races as a metaphor for the nation's standing, then declares, "To say we want to compete means we are already losing. I want...
...Festoon Records on the corner gave notice that they were moving in December so we offered that space to Revolution Books. I was not aware they were considering leaving the area. I only want a situation best for everyone. It's like musical clients," said Wasserman...
...rent paid by Festoon Records, the proposed tenant, will more than offset the club's additional tax burden, according to one club member who asked not to be named...
...help make ends meet, the club applied for permission to rent the bottom level of its Mt. Auburn St. building to Festoon Records, at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Arrow Streets...