Word: cheeked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carter had little choice. He had repeatedly turned the other cheek, only to be slapped on it as well. Said Professor Richard Bulliet, an expert on Iran at Columbia University's Middle East Institute: "The feeling is widespread in Iran that America has no will whatsoever, that Carter is spineless, that they brought the Shah down and they can bring down Carter. They're living in a kind of never-never land in which the hostages have ceased to have any real existence because little pressure is being brought to release them...
...this the most," he said, firmly yanking the wheel toward his gut. The jet bucked to a 60-degree angle, pressing me into my seat. "Thirty degrees more and we'll be a rocket-ship, boy," he said, spittle running down through his grin and back across his bulbous cheek...
...embarrassing Olympic boycott pledge of support came last week from South Africa, one of 120 countries to receive a letter from Washington urging support of the U.S. stand. The South Africans, who have been banned from all Olympic events since 1964, assured the U.S., tongue in cheek, that they would definitely not be going to Moscow this summer...
President Carter's statement that the American people have nothing against Iran exemplifies the problem with his leadership. He has been so busy turning the other cheek for the past three years that he is now suffering from terminal dizziness...
...against exaggerating the importance of the crisis, and what he later called "war hysteria." Said he: "This is not the first abuse of Soviet power, nor will it be the last ... It is less than a year since the Vienna summit when President Carter kissed President Brezhnev on the cheek. We cannot afford a foreign policy based on the pangs of unrequited love." Kennedy cautioned against taking action in the Persian Gulf without the support of our allies. He warned against haste in adding new nuclear weaponry like the MX missile to the U.S. arsenal. He opposed registration...