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...tough stance on Afghanistan. Shortly after meeting with Vance, British Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington called on his fellow Europeans to unite in supporting the U.S. Said he: "There is no country in the [European] Community which doesn't know that the alliance with America is the bedrock of Europe's security. When the chips are down, we are all firmly on the side of the only superpower we have...
...Larouche, or former New Hampshire governor Meldrim Thompson (running on the Constitution Party ticket) were truly in the race. "I wish Bill Loeb (the publisher of the Union-Leader, a fanatical conservative) would run," one old man declares. "I'd vote for him--he's an honest man." The bedrock conservatism of the Granite State is as firm as any in the nation, fed by rational fears of high-priced meat and heating...
...carelessly surmounted all the time by lovers. So the search for something to deter, for a few reels, a middleaged, middle-class Marcello Mastroianni from turning his one-night stand with Nastassia Kinski, a spunky student, into a full-scale affair has led the creators of this film to bedrock taboo: the possibility of incest...
...seven by sliding down a banister straight into a White House reception. He was wounded and highly decorated as an infantry officer in both World Wars, conflicts that none of his three brothers survived. Roosevelt was an investment banker by profession, a conservationist by avocation and a bedrock McCarthyite Republican by political creed. His death makes Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 95, T.R.'s sole surviving child...
...feminist movement is "entrapped in the bedrock of 'woman is wonderful,'" Wittig said...