Word: beholding
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Then my concentration was rocked by a jarring voice from afar, screaming, "Behold, the peons are storming the palace!" I bolted for the door and ran down the stairs. With a throng of fellow North Housers, I pushed my way through the first floor out onto NoHo's magnificent balcony overlooking the rest of the Quad...
...BUSH ADMINISTRATION MET ONE LAST DEADline -- kind of, barely. Officials had said they hoped to at least begin a pullout from Somalia before Bill Clinton's Inauguration. Lo and behold, in the final hours of the Bush presidency about 1,100 Marines were beginning to come home. Besides redeeming Bush's pledge, the move was clearly intended to prod the United Nations to hurry up in creating a regular peacekeeping force to take over from the U.S.-led ad hoc troops. American Marine Colonel Fred Peck, a military spokesman in Mogadishu, hopefully suggested that U.S. troops could begin to pass...
...ability to be at the very center of the action while at the same time being above it, critiquing the problem without bearing any responsibility for it. That he has so far been able to straight-facedly blame George Bush for hiding the truth is a wonder to behold. For as TIME has previously reported, Clinton knew the numbers were getting worse long before the election -- and knew as well that his campaign plan was fraught with faulty assumptions and overoptimistic revenue and spending projections. That was fine for then -- no one caught on, and Clinton...
...decor at Pizza Hut became one of the only cultural details we saw that Tuesday night. And, lo and behold, the tabletops at that Alabama Pizza Hut boasted a red-and-white checkerboard under a layer of thin plastic. Commercialism had strangled the South. Give me familiarity or give me death...
...stumbled on a rusted Piper in a local aircraft hangar. He asked his best friend, state police captain Raymond ("Buddy") Young, who has been Clinton's chief of security for a decade, to run the plane's identification numbers through the fbi's national crime data base. Lo and behold, it turned out to be Reed's missing plane. Reed and his wife were indicted for mail fraud in Wichita. The case was dismissed in 1990 after the government refused to turn over North's diaries, notes and phone records, which Reed claimed would back up his alibi...