Word: camped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagans had no comment Sunday afternoon as they alighted from the helicopter that brought them from Camp David, Md., where they had spent the weekend. Reagan pointed to his ear, indicating he could not hear questions shouted at him by reporters; Mrs. Reagan appeared cool and unsmiling, but said nothing...
...generations of Russians, books have been surrounded by exaltation and tragedy. In a prison camp in the Gulag during the 1960s, the poet and essayist Andrei Sinyavsky hid hand-copied pages of the Book of Revelations in the calf of his boot. He wrote, "What is the most precious, the most exciting smell waiting for you in the house when you return to it after half a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books...
...Almost as if anticipating facile and unflattering comparisons with Jimmy Carter, the Dukakis camp goes out of its way to insist that the Governor has learned to set limited and attainable priorities. Paul Brountas, who has replaced former Campaign Manager John Sasso as the candidate's closest confidant, contends that Dukakis failed in his abortive first term because "there were far too many legislative initiatives." Brountas predicts that the domestic agenda of Dukakis' first year in the White House would consist of perhaps a "half dozen manageable programs." Seated one row behind a dozing and generally far vaguer Dukakis aboard...
Instead of composing a foreign policy based primarily on rhetoric, Carter made more tangible gains in four years than Reagan has in eight. He orchestrated the Camp David accords, normalized relations with China, and pushed the Panama Canal treaty through Congress...
...Peacefully, but first of all we have to start the negotiations on this period of the Camp David accords. Why, why is it so difficult to sit together like we are sitting here now? What's the difficulty? I will kill them or what...