Word: animus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exchange with the editors-I happen to have the transcript-I'd like to read what you said." That was not Reagan's only uncomfortable moment. A press corps professionally conditioned never to clap or boo gave way to spontaneous laughter when Reagan asserted: "There is no animus, personal animus, and there is no bickering or backstabbing going on. We're a very happy group...
...reply, the president allowed that "there seems to be too much just loose talk going around, but it has been exaggerated out of all reality." He continued, "There is no animus, personal animus, and there is no bickering or back-stabbing going on." Then, the punch line: "We're very happy group." Members of the press corp could not stifle their laughter at that remark...
...test of how revolutionary the left was, and how far they would go. But "few were ready to die, so the decade reached its end." Viorst says that by this time, the country had reached agreement that America had blundered in entering the war. But the animus of the Movement, vibrant in all of Viorst's heroes, was not the nemesis of one war, of one minority--it was the nemesis of an entire machine, the ideals and values of America which caused the country to blunder into war, oppress peoples, and poison the environment. The Movement...