Word: arms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reasoning, much as he would later do on TV. But as the President finished his explanation, the five leaders sat in hushed silence. Finally House Speaker Tip O'Neill broke it. "God bless you, Mr. President," he said. "And good luck." Tip gently patted Reagan's arm in a rare moment of rapport...
...high but now crunched into about ten feet of rubble. Once a chunk of floor had been lifted away, a team of workers would sift the debris for corpses and personal effects. Some bodies were sandwiched between floors and ceilings and could be retrieved only by cutting off an arm or a leg. Rescuers emerged carrying blood-soaked buckets filled with limbs and tattered flesh. The Marines kept insisting that several comrades might still be found alive in the basement, but such hopes seemed futile. By the end of the first day, the searchers had donned masks' to ward...
...bill that could pass Congress and be signed into law by Reagan look impossible. Accordingly, civil rights lobbyists are trying to drum up support for a concurrent resolution of both chambers that would take the commission out of the Executive Branch entirely and establish it in effect as an arm of Congress. It would have eight members, not six: four appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate (currently South Carolina Republican Strom Thurmond, who is also chairman of the Judiciary Committee) and four by House Speaker Tip O'Neill. The resolution would not need the President...
PENN STATE 20,000, BROWN 0--Paterno had for himself, is he not king? Awake, thou coward majesty! thou sleepiest. Is not the king's name 20,000 names? Arm, arm, your name! A puny subject strikes at thy great glory...
...pets; Luis, the eldest, paraded through his upper-middle-class youth in religious vestments. In the early days, just about everyone he met was famous. Even before he made his first film at 28, Buñuel tells us, he had vanquished Heavyweight Champ Jack John son at arm wrestling; he had met Jorge Luis Borges, and found him tedious; Picasso had given him a painting (which he lost), and Lorca had written poems to him (which he quotes). Later, in Holly wood, Charlie Chaplin thoughtfully ar ranged an orgy for Buñuel, and in New York, the power...