Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Ladies and gentlemen, start waving your Terrible Towels--the Pittsburgh Steelers have won the Super Bowl for an unprecendented fourth time...
...advised Ronald Reagan to ignore the Republican debate in Iowa and who is masterminding Reagan's surprisingly low-key and slow-starting presidential campaign remains supremely confident that the strategy is sound. John Sears, 39, Reagan's campaign boss in 1980, as in 1976, still feels that if Reagan had debated in Iowa he would have made himself just one of the pack. Says Sears: "Being the front runner can give you control. The race cannot really start before he begins to compete. Without him, it's just practice...
Sears' dominance of the staff was shown when he maneuvered two of Reagan's longtime aides out of the campaign. As finance director, Lyn Nofziger had argued with Sears' decision to start the campaign slowly and to replace some Reagan loyalists from 1976 with more moderate organizers. When fund raising lagged and Nofziger became more combative, Sears forced him to quit. Aide Mike Deaver then took charge of money raising, but Sears resented Deaver's independence. To spare Reagan the pain of choosing between the two, Deaver resigned...
Applauded sporadically by obsequious Soviet diplomats and reporters, Karmal tried to turn aside tough questions from Western correspondents with bluster and even downright lies. How many Soviet soldiers have been killed or captured since the start of Afghanistan's internal war? "Not even one Soviet soldier has been killed, captured or wounded," he answered. When a British correspondent tried to ask a question, Karmal boorishly denounced him as a representative of British imperialism. "You invaded us three times and you got a rightful and deserved answer from the people of Afghanistan," he growled at the Briton, to the approving...
...were a limerent, believe me, there is no one else I'd rather limer with than you, and I mean that most sincerely. You and I are caught in a world we never made, but in the future limerents and non-limerents will identify themselves at the very start of an affair. Tennov says so right on page 263. Until then, the only thing a limerent can do, if attracted to a non-limerent, is "run like hell" from the word go, she says. Poignantly late for us, I'd say. Have lots of limerence, Ralph...