Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration's gastronome-in-residence. Served in the Glorious Cafe in Georgetown, the roti de trois betes--roast of three "beasts"--had beef as its core, surrounded by veal, in turn ringed with boneless duck. Downed by the flu, Deaver missed the party. "He couldn't even bear to watch a peanut butter commercial on TV," his wife said...
...Soviets, for their part, might go for such an accord because it would bear a strong--and, for the Administration, somewhat embarrassing--resemblance to the much maligned SALT II treaty and also to the counterproposal that the Kremlin put forward three years ago in the stalemated Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START...
...plane they are out on their makeshift runways, pulling sleds, flashing blinding smiles. On this route the mailman is always invited inside. A couple who wish to be known only as Newt and Sharon baked him a cherry pie on this particular visit. Sharon makes her pastries with bear fat. They talked of the six otters they had seen outside in the Salmon River that morning. Newt tore through his mail, furiously writing checks as he went. "This is one of the few places where the bills are late before they get here," he explained. "Computers don't understand that...
...heard a loud bang, then a deafening roar, and for a few seconds I could see a reddish-yellow flame streaking across the sky," recalled Bear Hunter Herman Sotkajarvi, a resident of the northernmost reaches of Norway, well above the Arctic Circle. "The house quivered, windows rattled, and my three dogs started barking." What Sotkajarvi apparently saw in the early afternoon of Dec. 28 was a runaway cruise missile fired from either a submarine or a ship during Soviet naval maneuvers in the Barents Sea, northeast of the Scandinavian Peninsula. Norwegian radar tracked the supersonic object as it crossed...
...playland. Pushbuttons control all manner of gadgets: lighting panels on every floor, a laser-disk stereo system that can be turned on by infrared signals from any room. And in the back patio, a Jacuzzi whirlpool bath stands surrounded by fake boulders. McGowan admired the props in the polar bear cage at the National Zoo and ordered some for himself. The whole place suits the style of the man who, on once being asked what MCI stood for, said, "Money coming...