Word: bores
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...annual sessions. Reagan and his senior aides regarded the first two that the President attended as important tests of his ability to cut a respectable figure on the world stage, but have been let down by the last three. Says one adviser bluntly: "It's getting to be a bore...
Where did the missionary impulse come from? David Treadup's heritage was somewhat ambiguous as it bore on his calling. On his mother's side: a line of New England divines, shrewd petty manufacturers, and farmers... On his father's: the vigor, tough athleticism, self-sufficiency, and forest raptures of the trapper's life ... and an almost mute religiosity, having to do with the suspected presence of the eye of God in the tops of trees and in the mysterious depths of trout pools... On both sides: strong fiber, ample courage, a constant uneasy dialogue with ancient values, and outcroppings...
Though Reagan blithely disavowed his aides' warnings about political retaliation, the final vote bore the marks of tough party discipline. Only eight of the Senate's 53 Republicans voted against the MX measure. The G.O.P. defections were more than offset by ten Democratic votes for the MX, including that of Minority Leader Robert Byrd, a longtime MX supporter. Said Democrat Christopher Dodd: "The negotiations in Geneva are what put this over the top. I'll bet Reagan got ten votes on that basis alone...
...marking of the Sharpeville anniversary bore out her words. Magistrates in many urban areas banned all outdoor meetings. Riot police watched warily over church services commemorating the massacre. Blacks in Sharpeville itself flung stones at passing cars and buses. Altogether, the killings of 25 years ago seemed much too familiar...
...ambitious teenager, she changed her name from Cicily Isabel Fairfield to Rebecca West, after one of Ibsen's strong-minded heroines, and then spent much of her life in the public spotlight. In 1912 she began a tumultuous ten- year affair with H.G. Wells and in 1914 bore him a son; meanwhile, her writing began to attract attention. She produced fiction, biography, history, criticism and a steady supply of journalism. She espoused feminism in its early wave and patriotism during the period after World War II when her native England reeled with self-doubt. Although she died...