Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...From the start, the conference organizers were determined to keep to the middle of the road and not fire up the conservatives, who were busy holding press conferences denouncing the meeting. Marian Wright Edelman, director of the Children's Defense Fund, told the delegates: "The issue is not whether government interferes; it already does. Our job is to make sure specific governmental and private-sector actions help, not hurt children and strengthen, not weaken families." The conference, insisted its delegates, would not demand big spending programs but would seek ways of aiding families through measures like tax credits...
...with Carlo Donat-Cattin, deputy secretary-general and No. 2 man in the dominant Christian Democratic Party. It seemed that Donat-Cattin's son Marco, 28, was a fellow member of Prima Linea. According to San-dalo, when the father learned that police were about to start a man hunt for Marco, he summoned Sandalo and begged him to warn his son that he should flee the country. But who tipped off Donat-Cattin about the impending arrest? Sandalo claimed it came from the top-from Prime Minister Cossiga himself...
DIED. Richard W. ("Rube") Marquard, 90, Hall of Fame pitcher for the old New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, whose string of 19 victories in a row at the start of the 1912 season remains a record; of cancer; in Baltimore...
Certain exhortations belong to certain sports. The official starter has always intoned the imperative: "Gentlemen, start your engines." Umpires immemorially have shouted: "Play ball!" Runners have forever been instructed: "On your mark, set, go!" But when the horses reached the starting gate for the 112th running of the Belmont Stakes, Track Caller Marshall Cassidy could have been forgiven if he were tempted to mix phrases...
...sympathy that many columnists once felt for Carter has turned in some cases to active dislike, in others to acute disappointment. As Anthony Lewis says, "Those of us who admired Jimmy Carter from the start are in a quandary now. He is a highly intelligent man, with good values, but somehow . . ." On Martin Agronsky's Washington TV show, Columnist Carl Rowan often seems to be defending Carter, but he insists he is simply giving the President a fair shake against "ridiculous criticism." The 90% of blacks who voted for Carter in 1976 believed his promise of more jobs, says...