Word: springly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Liberal campaign was a suppression of Trudeau's high profile. The Liberal leader has gone a long way toward dispelling the image of arrogance that cost him the spring elections, but the last thing Liberal strategists wanted to do was dredge up ghosts. Consequently, the Liberal campaign focused on Clark's flip-flops and his incompetence as a leader. They did not offer Trudeau as an attractive alternative; instead they tried to imply, by emphasizing Clark's failures, that any government would be preferable to a Conservative government...
...Conservative strategy this winter corresponded to their strategy of last spring, a fatal mistake. The voters in Ontario, presented with a budget imbalanced in favor of Western Canada--Clark's electoral backbone--turned sour on the Tories. Even Ontario's Conservative premier, William Davis, criticized the austerity budget as unfair. The traditionally divided Tories thus repeated history by flailing at their own flag, leaving Clark with a tattered Tory...
...IRONIES begin to emerge. The Liberals used the same campaign strategy this election as the Conservatives did last spring, with similarly successful results. Trudeau's role as Liberal leader has come full circle: from being trumpeted as a powerful leader, to being hidden for fear of his arrogant image. The Conservatives gained their minority last spring on the strength of the vote in Ontario, with solid support in the West; this time, they foundered and finally sank in Ontario because their budget was perceived as inequitable, Clark's leadership as inadequate...
...First Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of B.U.'s faculty union in a verdict reached during the spring of 1978, McCracken said...
...rest right there. Look how this magical place affects the heroine: "Venice inspired her to meet its fantasy with her own, to finally wear the Norman Hartnell dress designed during the last years of the twenties . . ." From Venice, perhaps, off to tour the castles of England and then, come spring, to the hunt country of Virginia...