Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this office and with this President." So said Ronald Reagan last December, in accepting responsibility for the terrorist car-bomb attack on U.S. Marine headquarters in Lebanon that claimed 241 American lives and, ultimately, forced a U.S. withdrawal from Lebanon. Yet last week, on two occasions, the President chose to amend that judgment radically and somewhat petulantly, blaming Congress for the most serious U.S. foreign policy failure of his Administration. Reagan also faulted the Legislative Branch on its performance in other foreign policy issues, including Central America, evidently succumbing to a time-honored tradition of incumbent Presidents during years divisible...
...Austrian count, learning to speak English with the slightest of accents, as if it were a second language. She found it difficult to explain to titled dinner companions, whose parents did nothing but shoot animals, precisely what it was that her own father did for a living. She chose her films because the locations appealed to her, and it is clear to her on hindsight that she might have paid more attention to the scripts. Her chilly beauty aroused thoughts of ravishment, at least in the minds of directors, and for one torrid scene, in Soldier Blue, it was determined...
...only team that might present tougher competition is Navy, and the Middies finished third at San Diego. Brown chose not to compete out West, instead trouncing Northeastern on the Charles. To make matters worse, Harvard got past Brown three times last year, yet once by only seconds. "We have to be faster than we were last week," says the Crimson mentor...
...aware that they are referred to as "slobbering bovines" or "grateful heifers" by their hosts after they leave In other words, are they shocked by the contents of the now famous newsletter' After reading the newsletter, which was so generously distributed by the picketers Saturday night, some women chose not to attend the Hawaiian party. However we witnessed and were among a large number of women who crossed the picked line This proves that many other women realize the newsletter was a) not intended to be taken seriously, and b) does not represent the attitude of most of the members...
...September 9, 1980, President Bok wrote that this was a matter that he would either want to discuss in detail or say nothing about in print at all. He chose the latter course as the only feasible one. I could not quote from his letters...