Word: ah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ah, tradition--it's what makes Harvard and Zero Mostel great...
...even sure what he had said that got him into trouble, and at one point in a press conference argument about having government-to-government relations with Taiwan, Reagan confessed: "I don't know. I don't know that I said that or not, ah, I, I really don't." When his running mate George Bush offered, "He did not say that," a relieved Reagan piped up, "George says I didn't say it." In fact, Reagan did say it (that we should have "governmental" relations with Taiwan), and he said it in an almost offhand...
...closet Matisse of Marriotts will go on display and sale at Manhattan's Central Falls Gallery. "People will always paint Notre Dame," the artist explains, "but who is going to memorialize Room 409 of the Holiday Inn South, unless I do?" A new career here for Safer? Ah, he sighs, "it would mean no more motels...
Momentous as these decisions were, they were announced with little ah" of drama. On Wednesday, when the final three decisions came down, some two dozen reporters jammed the basement pressroom of the Supreme Court building and grabbed for copies, prompting a court employee to snap: "Behave!" But upstairs in the ornate red-draped courtroom, the tourists who occupied most of the seats had little idea what was going on. The black-robed Justices referred to the cases by their uninformative docket names (the quotas case, for example, was identified as Fullilove vs. Klutznick), and Chief Justice Warren Burger announced...
...remain in the hospital for two to three weeks, followed by two weeks of further recuperation at home. Despite his history of heart disease-including a major heart attack in March 1977-they predicted that he would be ready to resume his full duties after that. In fact, said ah aide, "we have been assured that he will be able to return to his usual twelve-to 18-hour days...