Word: bowings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have the exchange of tactical weapons against troops in the field without its bringing either one of the major powers to pushing the button." Haig set off a demonstration bombshell of his own by announcing that NATO had a contingency plan to fire a warning nuclear "shot across the bow," if needed, to deter a Soviet conventional attack in Europe; Weinberger said he knew of no such policy...
Kitty Kelley subtitles her book The Last Star, but she might just as well have said The Last Vamp. Taylor probably is the end of a line that stretches back to Clara Bow: flamboyant, outsize and so self-absorbed and utterly beautiful that anyone who comes near is likely to be drawn into her orbit by force of gravity. As Fisher puts it somewhat less kindly, "Elizabeth liked to collect trophies...
Kristine Larson, bow seat on the first boat, was the first of the Crimson to cross the finish line. "Considering that we discovered a broken oarlock five minutes before the race and seats started coming off their slides five minutes after the race started, we rowed a good race," she said...
...detonated. His point, mainly lost in the ensuing response among skittish European allies, was that the U.S. would attempt to contain any future European conflict at the lowest possible level. The following day, Weinberger went before the same committee and directly contradicted Haig's warning-shot-across-the-bow doctrine. Something of the sort had been suggested in the 1960's, he said, but had never become NATO policy. Said Weinberger: "There is nothing in any plan that I know of that contains anything remotely resembling that, nor should...
...Bow your head with great respect...