Word: choses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the visit, East Wing aides snickered at the black dress with rhinestone belt buckle that Raisa had worn to the late-morning coffee. "A bit cocktailish, don't you think?" one said. White House officials were also miffed that Raisa chose to set up a colloquy with prominent women at the home of Democratic Fund Raiser Pamela Harriman. Among the guests: Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, University of Chicago President Hanna Gray, Publisher Katharine Graham and Senators Barbara Mikulski and Nancy Kassebaum. Nonetheless, by the end of the summit, official patch-up stories were issuing from...
...both issues on last week's referendum, both were defeated. Only 44% of Poland's 26 million eligible voters responded affirmatively to a question on economic reform, and 46% okayed a related query on "democratization" in Poland. The decisive margin belonged to the one-third of eligible voters who chose not to participate, many to defy the regime...
...cult paranoia, official corruption, institutionalized mendacity, arbitrary arrests and executions, dehumanizing labor camps. That Abuladze was ever allowed to make this film is remarkable. That it has been shown to millions of ordinary Soviet citizens, many of whom greeted it with standing ovations, is astounding. And that the Soviets chose to distribute the work abroad is a shrewd advertisement for that heady mixture of public relations and public confession that Mikhail Gorbachev has popularized under the banner of glasnost...
...Brown is always a late-season team, and they chose to wait for Easterns," Costin Scalise added. "But I feel that, provided we continue to improve throughout the rest of the season, that we will be the team to beat in February...
They were armed with rifles, but the 20 black rebels who descended on two white missionary farms in western Zimbabwe one night last week chose not to use them. Instead, the bandits rounded up 16 inhabitants, including seven women and five children ranging in age from six weeks to 16 years, tied them with barbed wire and then hacked them to death with machetes. According to horrified farm workers, the rebels chanted revolutionary songs before burning the bodies of the victims. It was the worst episode of antiwhite violence since the former rebel colony of Rhodesia gained black-ruled independence...