Word: carpetting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warnings seemed all the more ominous in light of the new details that emerged last week about the stormy March 4 Moscow summit meeting between Polish and Soviet leaders. Led by Leonid Brezhnev and five Politburo members, the Soviet team reportedly called Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania on the carpet for letting the crisis get out of hand. Brandishing thick dossiers on the Polish labor movement, some of the Soviet officials read aloud from Solidarity union documents and speeches as though they were presenting a bill of indictment. One member of the Polish delegation was reportedly so shaken...
...describe her. She comes equipped with an ingeni(e)ous echo, a snotty little girl's voice placed piercingly over the audience. Most of the other special effects have a deliberately plodding quality: the magician is lowered--haltingly--from the splashy proscenium on a "magic carpet"; an actor stands on a platform that is then turned round and round by other actors to indicate movement through space or disorientation; a charmingly flustered little girl (Tamsy Johnson) removes her ape head at the end of the show and recites--haltingly--a speech about how she's not really...
...White House, and Reagan seems aware that he is exactly five minutes behind schedule. He leaves the elevator that has brought him from breakfast with his wife in the family quarters, bids a smiling "Hi, hi" to Secret Service agents and strides so quickly down the red carpet that the entourage must scurry to keep up. Reagan is not a morning person. He wakens at an unpresidential 7:30 or 7:45 (vs. 6 a.m. for Jimmy Carter). Today's 8 o'clock call from the White House switchboard found the Reagans already risen from their king-size...
...Israel, but there are still plenty of places where Anwar Sadat is considered something of a model statesman. Last week the Egyptian President went to Western Europe and came away with bravos ringing in his ears. He was given a standing ovation by the European Parliament, then a red carpet reception by French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing...
...failed in 1972 because of the increasing popularity of wash-and-wear garments and the loss of two high-volume customers. After his business declined by $30,000 over three years, McDaniel was forced to sell out for $32,000. He had unsuccessful flings in real estate leasing and carpet cleaning, but then in 1975 he bought a second dry-cleaning shop from a friend who was operating it unprofitably. "I thought I was through with dry cleaning, but it was a bargain," he says...