Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Whenever governments take money from the military, there is always grumbling. What President Gorbachev is proposing, with your support, is a drawdown of the military. Will the armed forces be happy about having some of their toys taken away...
...Three sailors -- and $4 million worth of nonnuclear missiles -- on the U.S.S. Dwight D. Eisenhower were washed away by heavy seas near Cape Hatteras; only two of the men were recovered...
...them early on. As a result, they have become gun-shy about admitting their California origins and tend to socialize mostly with other Californians. "The irony is that now I've become antigrowth myself!" Margot Grim says, laughing. "Here I am, a Californian, wishing that other Californians would stay away...
MASTERGATE. The President dozes away his afternoons. A paranoid National Security Adviser travels by Stealth bomber. The true head of Government is a secretive CIA director who also happens to be dead. Larry Gelbart's fiercely funny Broadway satire lampoons events that made the evening news the sharpest comedy on TV. Joseph Daly is a dead-on George Bush, and the dialogue is an S.J. Perelmanesque stream -- debased, obfuscatory and unconsciously self- condemning. Samples: "I wonder if I might ask the Senator to stop raking over dead horses"; "What did the President know, and does he have any idea that...
...last week said they had no faith Krenz would fulfill his pledges. But change -- radical change, unimaginable change -- is coming to East Germany one way or another, and some think it will not stop until it has redrawn the boundaries of the country. The tide of events is washing away leaders and eroding the ideology of a rigidly orthodox state. Swept away too are many of the old certainties that have given shape and substance to the division of Europe settled at Yalta. Among them is the central and long- standing assumption, in Moscow as well as in the West...