Word: baye
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newest and most important additions to the local guerrilla arsenal, however, are two highly accurate rapid-firing Swiss 20-mm Oerlikon antiaircraft guns that keep the deadly Soviet Mi-24 helicopter gunships at bay. There are reportedly some 40 Oerlikons now in Afghanistan. In the absence of reliable shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, they give the rebels effective antihelicopter weapons for the first time...
...sign my name with one hand, holding shifty-eyes at bay with the other. I leave the building...
Brought to bay in a courtroom, the Mafia bosses have adopted an unusual defense: rather than fight the Government's efforts to prove the existence of La Cosa Nostra, they admit it. "This case is not about whether there is a Mafia," thundered Defense Attorney Samuel Dawson. "Assume it. Accept it. There is." Nevertheless, he told the jury, "just because a person is a member of the Mafia doesn't mean he has committed the charged crime or even agreed to commit the charged crime." Dawson depicted the Commission as a sort of underworld businessmen's round table that approves...
Aquino went a long way toward proving her credibility during her meetings with Reagan. At their private session in the Oval Office and a working lunch afterward, Aquino assured Reagan that her government would respect the existing agreement regarding the two major U.S. military bases in the Philippines, Subic Bay Naval Station and Clark Air Base. For months Aquino has been under intense pressure from many supporters to renounce the American military presence. The current pact expires in 1991 but is scheduled for review by both signatories in 1988. Said Reagan: "That gives us and the people of the Philippines...
...cannot stop from flapping out the news about every new affliction, every false hope of a cure. But this man's self-created problems are an actor's opportunity, and Lemmon responds with what is unquestionably the greatest of his portrayals of the middle-class American male at bay. His Harvey is a grotesquely funny monster, one who somehow engages our sympathy without once asking...