Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday, September 16, New York: A beautiful day for football. The sky is clear, the air is crisp and the nearby Hudson River is murky gray...
...cruise the night life; individual ambitions ran contrary to the good of the band. Whatever it was, it seemed likely that they had been together too long -- 27 years, to be exact. So when Slipping Away begins and the husky fragility of Richards' vocal takes instant hold, it is clear that this is more than just a good closer for a record. Richards takes the lead for once, and Jagger glides in on harmony. It's a political gesture, a way of dealing with all that friction, even as it's being moved out front. And it's something more...
Then, two weeks ago, a drug hit team pumped five bullets into Luis Carlos Galan. A Senator and protege of incumbent President Virgilio Barco Vargas, Galan was the clear front runner to win the presidency in next May's elections. But by killing him the narcotrafficantes may have finally gone too far. Instead of further intimidating the government, the murder of Galan helped intensify a crackdown that by last week had escalated to what a drug lords' communique called "absolute and total...
...indefinitely without any allies. And though Churchill had vowed to fight on the beaches, there were always others who might have been more "reasonable." One such figure was the self-exiled Duke of Windsor, who had taken refuge in Spain after the fall of France. He made it clear that he opposed the war, and the Germans tried through intermediaries to recruit him as a mediator in peace talks, even suggesting that he might thus be restored to his throne. Both he and the British government later declared that these discussions were without significance...
With hindsight it is clear that the Allies should and easily could have stopped Hitler by force, and their failure has long been condemned as "appeasement." But to the leaders of Britain and France, appeasement was a proudly proclaimed policy, meaning simply negotiating rather than fighting. "Appeasement between the wars was always a self-confident creed," Churchill biographer Martin Gilbert wrote in The Roots of Appeasement. "It was both utopian and practical. Its aim was peace for all time, or at least for as long as wise men could devise...