Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stocking, a steak, a baboon, all shazammed from one telepod machine to another. He proves to be an ardent lover, with amazing powers of recuperation. He impulsively performs gymnastic arabesques worthy of Kurt Thomas. It is as if his discovering the power of sexual love has electrified every circuit in his mind and body. Or could it have something to do with the night he placed himself in the telepod and a fly sneaked in with...
...once supreme tennis star and undefeated champ of testiness on and off the court, McEnroe dropped out of the game six months ago, vowing to change his attitude -- and his game -- for the better. But when the reformed McEnroe made his long-awaited return to the pro circuit last week at the Volvo International tournament in Stratton Mountain, Vt., some of his old habits surfaced again...
...Superintendent Donald Cabana. "Distasteful enough that they don't want to come back to prison." Of the more than 300 felons who have graduated from the 15-month-old program, only eight have returned to prison, a rate 35% lower than the normal return rate. Says Elzy Smith, a circuit-court judge who would rather sentence some first-time offenders to RID than grant them probation: "It's the best thing to come down the pike since I've been on the bench...
...petition is a gimmick designed to fatten G.O.P. coffers, to be sure, but Reagan was perfectly happy to play along. On the fund-raising circuit himself last week, he told a Texas audience that as he flew over the Dallas Convention Center, where he was renominated in 1984, he thought, "I wonder how folks down there would feel about giving it one more try?" As the audience broke into delirious applause, Reagan quickly added, with his showman's timing, "I'm kidding, of course." But not wholly. Reagan has come to see the 22nd Amendment as limiting presidential leverage...
...move to reconsider. The tie was enough to give the Administration a victory. Nonetheless, Vice President George Bush cast a tie-breaking 50th vote, scoring a point with the right-wing forces that had made a cause celebre of the fight against Manion's appointment to the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Chicago...