Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most dangerous aspect of the proposal is that it gives the President legislative power in addition to his executive power. He can modify, reshape, or nullify laws as he sees fit through the item veto. Further, by exercising it, he can alter bills so drastically that they will bear little resemblance to the ones which Congress originally passed. In just a few strokes of the pen, he can practically create his own legislation, Congress need not really involve itself. If James Madison were alive today...
...moral dimensions of fascism and can adapt poems by T.S. Eliot without tackling any metaphysical notion more complicated than an escalator ride into the clouds. No celestial choirs appear to sing in Lloyd Webber's ears, no muse or demon seems to haunt him, and his concoctions cannot bear close logical inspection. But he can beguile even sophisticated viewers into believing for the moment that they are witnessing highflying...
...partly remedied that next day at a press conference, where he suggested fewer Soviets be allowed in the West. "We have to bear in mind," he said, "that the Soviets don't send people to countries like the U.S. unless they are fully equipped, fully trained and either part of the KGB or might just as well be." Weinberger endorsed Perle's view that the number of Soviet officials in the U.S. should be no greater than the number of Americans in the U.S.S.R. (Right now the Soviets have nearly four times as many, 980 to 260.) Weinberger also defended...
...cane, got started off all right but then got lost in the convolution of his story. "My lie starts back in the spring of '37. I was down here on Rock Creek fishing a pretty good-size little hole." He saw a squirrel on a stump and then a bear swallowed the squirrel. Before it was all over he had caught a fish, which weighed about half a pound, that had swallowed a coon, which weighed 22 lbs. Ernie took second place...
Tigers and temples and the Taj Mahal. Maharajahs and turbaned warriors and old men ritually wandering penniless in order to purify themselves and become holy. Snake charmers and bear tamers and wizened artisans using the simplest of tools to chisel out tiny, intricate talismans of beauty. Images of India, crossroads of the exotic East, have lingered in the Western imagination. During the past decade or so, they have been, more than ever, images from India's subjugated past, particularly from the British Raj of The Man Who Would Be King, Heat and Dust and Gandhi, of The Far Pavilions...