Word: gray
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...detective pauses, stroking the underside of his gray-black beard, before explaining that all three clues pointed directly to the same moral-crime syndicate. The conspiracy, however, was actually much larger than it first seemed, involving not only cowards and congressmen, but also journalists, lawyers, psychiatrists, the American Civil Liberties Union, Hollywood, and Harvard...
They invented winds hield wipers here, in the middle of what was once the largest deciduous forest in North America. Everyone used theirs today in this city of auto factories and steel mills, as a gray pallor hung over the "city of forests...
AMERICA HAS BECOME obsessed with its fall from grace, as the faery world affluence of the '60s and '70s fades into the dim gray of an inflationary, post-industrial society. Current disillusionment and failure naturally foster exaggerated perceptions of past-promise and potential. There was a time when something special about American ingenuity, self-confidence and leadership exalted patriotism beyond hyper-nationalism to the realm of highest religious abstraction: faith was grounded in sheer success. The country could have no trouble fighting its enemies abroad or preserving liberty and prosperity at home--this, after all, was the American century...
...staff argued again whether to debate Carter without Anderson. Earlier in the discussions, Aides Mike Deaver, Bill Timmons, Lyn Nofziger and Richard Wirthlin were all to some degree opposed. Undecided or uncommitted were Stuart Spencer, Bill Casey and Ed Meese. Favoring acceptance were James Baker and Ed Gray. Now the sentiment shifted and a consensus for accepting an invitation to debate was reached. Learning of his staffs recommendation, Reagan readily concurred...
...toll of every man who seizes it. Jimmy Carter, who sought the office with such determination and is now fighting so furiously to retain it, has been buffeted both by circumstances beyond his control and mistakes of his own making. His once thick shock of light brown hair is gray and strawlike in the unremitting glare of television lights. His soft skin mottles when he tires. The crises, the setbacks, the crushing burdens of the office have aged him a decade in the past four years, but they have not exhausted him nor burned him out. If anything, a calm...