Word: breathes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...five days last week, violence engulfed much of Burma, a country peopled by devout Buddhists averse to bloodletting, in a spontaneous eruption of discontent that rocked a despised government to its foundations. Then, just as the surge of clashes ebbed slightly -- as if both sides were catching their breath -- the protesters won what they had set out to achieve, the resignation of Sein Lwin (pronounced sane lwin), 64, a hard-line retired general who had succeeded longtime Strongman Ne Win only 17 days earlier. No explanation accompanied the Radio Rangoon announcement of the President's resignation beyond a brief mention...
...selection of Sen. Dan Quayle (R-Indiana) as his running mate does is to highlight the vice president's glaring weaknesses as a candidate. The pick was a foolish one that has Democrats celebrating and many Republicans muttering under their breath in disgust...
Elizabeth Spencer is often compared to another Mississippi-born writer, Eudora Welty. Sometimes Spencer's name is even mentioned in the same critical breath with Henry James. The comparisons are flattering, but to be measured against some of the best usually means never measuring up. Cold comfort then for Spencer, especially since so many writers today are overpraised on a narrower scale of accomplishment...
...been the ones who got slammed and dunked. If the court had overturned the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, it would have reversed the perjury conviction of former Reagan Aide Michael Deaver, who was prosecuted by Independent Counsel Whitney North Seymour Jr. But what really had Washington holding its breath was the prospect that a reversal might put into question evidence collected by Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh in the first months of his Iran-contra investigation, before he took a backup appointment from the Justice Department. The ruling also frees Prosecutor James McKay, who earlier obtained a conviction of former...
...reluctant to give up our past. Our notoriety in the U.S. has been our resistance to assimilation. The guarded symbol of Hispanic-American culture has been the tongue of flame: Spanish. But the remarkable legacy Hispanics carry from Latin America is not language -- an inflatable skin -- but breath itself, capacity of soul, an inclination to live. The genius of Latin America is the habit of | synthesis. We assimilate...