Word: violets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been a long day of campaigning, and the Prime Minister had a cold. Wrapped in a violet overcoat, she leafed through stump speeches as the 1953 Convair turboprop plane bounced around over the stubby mountains of the Norwegian coastline...
...could be wrong. Maybe Ali's quote really is more original than Tennyson's "And from his ashes be made/The violet of his native land," which has two cross-references. Or maybe I'm right, and the editors didn't feel like selling a separate appendix listing all the other people who claimed greatness...
...duties are shared by 21 journalists, Shaw's solemn delivery embodies CNN's no-frills style. "His philosophy is that the messenger shouldn't get in the way of the message," says V.R. (Bob) Furnad, the senior executive producer of CNN's campaign coverage. But Shaw is no shrinking violet. During the White House interview, he described the 1980 Reagan-Bush ticket as a "shotgun marriage" and asked whether that was why the President had not endorsed Bush's 1988 candidacy...
...saddle at 77. Or Joe Niekro, a starting pitcher at 43, fluttering knuckle balls past cross-eyed youngsters on a Saturday afternoon. Or Dr. Jonas Salk, 73, who developed the first polio vaccine 35 years ago, searching for an AIDS vaccine. Or Elizabeth Taylor at 55, flashing a luscious violet smile from a magazine cover. We don't have to slow down, they seem to say. Why should...
...Feel the cleansing power of the stream of life, the coolness of water . . ." MacLaine purrs. She is wearing a turquoise sweater, violet sweatpants and green ankle-high sneakers, and a sizable crystal dangles from her neck. "There is so much you need to know . . . See the outer bubble of white light watching for you. It is part of you. Let it be. It is showing you itself, that part of God that you have not recognized...