Word: stead
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...problem was where to put Weinberger, and the answer seemed to be in the Pentagon, primarily because Secretary of Defense was the hardest senior post to fill. Other candidates kept getting ruled out. Texas Senator John Tower campaigned for the job, but Reagan wanted him in stead to be chairman of the Armed Services Committee in the new Republican-controlled Senate. John Connally pushed to become either Secretary of State or Defense, but the Reaganauts balked at the outspoken and controversial Texan. Says one: "There are just too many problems with John, and he brings with him no political benefits...
Even at 68, he would be able to do the same for the women, it was reasoned. And indeed, Barnaby's unparalleled store of squash expertise has stood the present Hemenway-haunters in good stead, especially with the help of assistant coaches (this year Pris Prissy), who do on-court training...
...Hemingway? I don't like his novels much, except that one about Spain." In stead, the author pores over maps, diaries and histories. In addition, he regularly does field work in Durango, Colo., so that he can be close to the land he writes about. If L' Amour is not praised as a prose stylist, he is applauded for lore that is accurate down to the last lariat...
Like nature, power abhors a vacuum. If a President fails to exercise power effectively, others are going to exercise it in his stead; and if America fails to exercise it effectively, other nations are going to exercise it in our stead. In the '80s, the alternative to the effective exercise of American power is the unchecked exercise of Soviet power...
...unable to inspire his troops in battle. This, in time, the kagemusha, or "shadow warrior," successfully manages. But then the dying leader conceives the notion of having his stand-in attempt a more difficult impersonation: Shingen wants the kagemusha to take over his life entirely and rule in his stead after his death, which is to be kept secret for three years so that the momentum of his conquests can be maintained...