Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin ambled through the streets of Washington like a Russian bear who resembled your Uncle Ralph. There has never been anything quite like him in capital diplomacy. He survived Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko and Gorbachev. Sighs Soviet Expert William Hyland: "That's a major achievement in itself...
...long ago in the woods of Georgia, a black bear wandering in search of food came across an air-dropped duffel bag packed with about 75 lbs. of cocaine. The animal proceeded to nibble at the coke until it died from an overdose. At about the same time in Haiti, millions of dollars' worth of poorly aimed cocaine packages fell upon an isolated farming village. The natives tried to make the mysterious substance into a whitewash for their huts but discovered it worked better as a foot powder and diaper-rash treatment. They began selling it for about...
Activities in the day-long tribute to upstate New York weather included a noontime parade of snow plows and Polar Bear Club members who jumped into slush-filled tubs...
...lonely but determined campaign to create a national poetic license. Last year he finally succeeded. Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin agreed that each new consultant in poetry to the Library, a post that has existed for 50 years and carries a one- or two-year term, would also bear the title of poet laureate. Matsunaga was understandably elated: "The poet laureate of the U.S. will raise the prestige and respect of the poet to the point where youngsters will aspire to become poets, just as politically minded youngsters aspire to the presidency...
Intended to "raise the people's consciousness of the covert war that the U.S. is waging against the Sandinista government in Nicaragua," the "Crosses of Sorrow and Hope" bear the names of those killed in Nicaragua by the Contras, said Karen L. Wood, a student at the Divinity School...