Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American ideal of excellence: sweaty, scantily clad individuals, almost exclusively men, in various stages of exertion. Thank God for the swimsuit issue. For those of us who were consistently chosen last in grade-school kickball and who crawled through the Presidential Physical Fitness test, it is a welcome, yet brief, respite from fifty-one weeks of pornography. Michael A. Snyder...
...point, a brief fist fight broke out between two members of the audience in the rear of the Carpenter Center auditorium, where Yevtushenko was addressing a crowd of several hundred...
...Washington, Ronald Reagan was getting ready to brief network-TV correspondents about his State of the Union address, scheduled for that evening. He was startled when several officials involved in the preparations burst into the Oval Office. "There's been a serious incident with the space shuttle," said Vice President George Bush. National Security Adviser John Poindexter echoed what he had just heard on TV: "A major malfunction." Communications Director Pat Buchanan got to the point: "Sir, the shuttle has exploded." Reagan stood up. "How tragic," he said. Then he asked, "Is that the one the schoolteacher was on?" While...
There was, at the apex of detente during Gerald Ford's Administration, a brief hope that space could become a bridge rather than a barrier between the superpowers. In 1975 astronauts and cosmonauts aboard an Apollo and a Soyuz spacecraft linked in a display of heavenly symbolism. But such episodes proved to be merely minor exceptions to the rule that space was inevitably where the superpowers would extend their rivalry...
...government plays on the widespread ignorance of sex by issuing dark warnings about many sexual practices. A 1984 government book for newlyweds on health says that promiscuity brings brief pleasure but also a loss of will, a generally low character and possibly neurasthenia. Even the wedding night has its perils. The book warns that husbands who do not know the location of the female genitals can cause severe damage. "Though such cases are rare," the book says, "they are worth noting...