Word: bended
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hottest draw in show biz. Michael Jackson? History. Prince? The Peloponnesian Wars. Cyndi Lauper? Last week's flash, and besides, if you wanna be like Cyndi, you have to dye your hair orange and fuchsia, and your parents freak. No, Madonna is the full moon you see at this bend in the river, and never mind what is around the corner...
Above all, the Nicaraguan government was intent on creating an image of firmness. On a blitz of Western Europe that was hastily added to a 13-day pilgrimage to East European capitals, President Daniel Ortega Saavedra repeatedly asserted that Nicaragua was not about to bend under the U.S. embargo. In Spain, France, Italy, Finland and Sweden, he pitched strongly to his hosts for help in filling the sizable trade vacuum ($168 million in 1984) left by U.S. sanctions...
Given the chance, the Corporation will bend, waver, and equivocate until and unless students, faculty, and alumni give them no choice but to act on the South Africa issue. When students and faculty gather in Harvard Yard, when alumni give money to the Endowment for Divestiture, the Harvard Corporation listens. When students bring the issue directly to the Corporation offices, they listen harder...
...more formidable obstacle: the Democrats have a 69-seat majority in the House, where there is strong sentiment to preserve domestic programs and hold the military to zero growth. Despite the willingness of Reagan and Regan to compromise with Senate Republicans, there are no signs that they will bend much further to satisfy House Democrats...
...black robes but fear the white man's power. They also covet the iron kettles, muskets and other trade goods the Europeans can provide in exchange for escort services. For the man of God, the journey is a trial of faith and a temptation in the wilderness. Each bend in the river holds new dangers to body and spirit: hunger, pestilence, raiding Iroquois and challenges hurled at Christianity by an Indian shaman...