Word: brande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opening of relations include a strong reassertion of U.S. guarantees to protect Taiwan. For a time, they thought they had the support of both Committee Chairman Frank Church and ranking Republican Member Jacob Javits. Both Senators permitted use of their names on a draft resolution that would brand an armed attack on Taiwan "a common danger to the peace and security" of both Taiwan...
...potato. Something like a potato. A '50s word for potato. Nobody uses it today except once, a while ago, some writers on Saturday Night Live wrote a jingle about Spud Beer, brewed from Idaho potatoes. Devo (Are We Not Men?) likes spuds, (they play a unique brand of "spud rock"), and so, obviously, does a new and soon-to-be-famous group that is coming to Boston soon. Their name: Spud City. I guess they know what spuds are. Watch them bake at Who's on First tomorrow night, a club without a phone number or any publicized address. Getting...
...fact, diplomatic relations never represent a statement of principle of support; they are only a pragmatic tool to achieve political goals. Indeed, Carter's speedy recognition of the Khomeini-appointed government in Iran followed this very principle. While the U.S. may be uncomfortable with Khomeini's brand of Islamic rule, and should object to such actions as the seizure of the Israeli embassy and the secret trials and executions of pro-Shah officials, the recognition ratifies none of those actions. Instead it marks the awareness of American officials that the U.S. has a political and economic stake in Iran that...
Steinbrenner now enjoys that peculiarly American brand of celebrity, which transcends a man's profession and allow a sports executive to pontificate on such issues as poverty and foreign aid. He even speaks like one of this country's manufactured celebrities. With an insincerity that would do a Las Vegas opening act proud, he called people "great guys" or "good friends of mine" at least five times...
...year veteran of the City Council and no babe-in-the-woods to the strange brand of incest and threat that is Cambridge politics, Danehy has seen worse times come...