Word: barkings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is not the first time that the State Department has bristled at foreign policy meddling by Helms, whose rhetorical bark outweighs his political bite. In 1984, when the Administration was successfully backing Moderate Jose Napoleon Duarte for the presidency of El Salvador, Helms loudly supported Far Right Candidate Roberto d'Aubuisson, who was reputedly linked to the country's death squads. More recently, Helms has assailed Mexican officials as being corrupt and dealing in drugs when State was trying to cool the cross-border feuding...
...hands of terrorists, providing a media spotlight that a man like Abbas needs to dramatize his cause. Indeed, Abbas received extraordinary mileage out of his appearance. Asked at the Tokyo summit about the implied threat against his life, Reagan said, "Let him try," thus elevating a terrorist's bark to something worthy of a presidential response in front of hundreds of reporters from around the world...
...point to a summit if the U.S. remained adamant on SDI, Gorbachev came anyway and acted amiable. Crows one Reagan adviser: "We gave up almost nothing at Geneva and the world did not come apart. That was an important confidence builder. Gorbachev began to appear less formidable, like his bark was worse than his bite...
...first awareness of the presence of sharks alarms him hardly at all: "Nothing appears more innocuous than a shark fin. It doesn't look like part of an animal, even less part of a savage beast. It's green and rough, like the bark of a tree." Starving, Velasco manages to capture a small gull: "It's easy to say that after five days of hunger you can eat anything." He cannot stomach the sight of the dead, bleeding bird, torn apart by his own hands. He experiences alternating highs and lows, sometimes throbbing with the will to survive, then...
...cataclysmic game drew near, subjects of investigation ranged from the acupuncture marks in Quarterback Jim McMahon's bare backfield to the ghostly timbre of the Bears' Baskerville bark. Regarding that old rallying call, Otis Wilson was asked soberly, "Is it more like an arf or a woof?" The Chicago linebacker deliberated and replied, "More like a woof." On the Patriots' side, Runner Tony Collins was awash in sociological queries about his 15 siblings. Under pressure, he managed to name all eight brothers and six of seven sisters. Several of the Super Bowl's 2,500 journalists strayed off to plumb...