Word: camped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grins at the audience and greets them by saying "Boker Tov," Hebrew for "good morning." He then listens without emotion to the chilling testimony against him, yawning and fiddling with his earphones while those on the stand weep. He even tried to shake the hand of one death camp survivor, who "without the slightest doubt" identified him as Ivan...
...carry out foreign policy through questionable initiatives in the name of the U.S. In negotiations with Iranian officials, he announced that the U.S. was tilting away from its official policy of neutrality in the Iran-Iraq war, and he fabricated fantastic stories of meetings with the President at Camp David. He wheedled support for the contras out of some half a dozen foreign governments and an assortment of private citizens. Despite the CIA's objections, he gave intelligence information to the Iranians. He claimed that he had threatened the President of Costa Rica with the cutoff...
...with that passage I gave you. And he said to me, 'This is a promise that God gave to Abraham. Who am I to say that we should not do this?' " North went on to tell the Iranians he had had two private discussions with the President at Camp David; in one, North asserted, Reagan had said that he wanted to see the Iran-Iraq war end on terms acceptable to Iran...
...President had inscribed the Bible only a few days earlier, at North's suggestion, on the understanding that the inscription was a favorite passage of one of the Iranians. North, according to White House sources, has never been to Camp David. When the President was apprised of North's story by the Tower commission, he described the NSC aide's statements as an "absolute fiction...
With those kind of numbers Duncan felt ready for major college basketball, and set out looking for the biggest-name school that would offer him a scholarship. But at a summer hoop camp, the director took a "personal interest" in Duncan. "He told me it'd be stupid for me not to go to the Ivy League," Duncan reports. "Realistically, the pros were a long-shot, and you can't beat an Ivy education...