Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ronald Reagan showed last week that beneath his affable facade beats the heart of an exasperated politician. At a meeting at the White House, the President once more called upon a group of Republican legislators to support his Administration's request for aid to the Nicaraguan rebels, known as the contras. Even as he spoke, Reagan knew that despite his pleas, Congress would not pass a military-aid bill for the rebels. The President reportedly pounded his fist on the table.* "We have got to get where we can run a foreign policy without a committee of 535 telling...
...France, V-E day was a holiday, but in many respects it seemed business as usual. President Francois Mitterrand, a former Resistance fighter, reviewed troops in a brief ceremony and placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe. He also sent a message to the Soviet Union in which he said that "the French have not forgotten the sacrifices of the Soviet people" in the battle against fascism...
...fought the war and who tend not to talk much about the travails that hardened their commitment. Some of their relatives share that strength. At Cu Chi, where entire families once lived in a Viet Cong-built labyrinth of tunnels that snaked along for more than 100 miles beneath U.S. bases, Nguyen Thi Tu, 60, sells fruit to visitors. "I feel better than before," says the bony woman. "We have complete freedom. We can work anywhere. We are not afraid of anything...
Nonetheless, the evidence in favor of an impact was rapidly accumulating. Other geologists uncovered similar iridium deposits just above Cretaceous rock beneath the floor of the Atlantic Ocean and under the Raton basin in northeastern New Mexico. Additional analysis showed that the samples contained ratios of gold and platinum nearly identical to those found in meteorites. Furthermore, other sediment layers containing abnormally high amounts of iridium were discovered under both the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico; these layers were deposited around the time of a smaller mass extinction that occurred more than 30 million years...
...Council was swept up in the emotion of the debate, intensified beneath the glare of the TV cameras...