Word: coate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Commander in Chief. It was his war, just like all those bills up on the Hill were his bills. He tried to run the war like he ran Congress, with bluster and threat one minute, humility and doubt the next. He had the documents in his inner coat pocket, votes on his legislation, the latest body count from Viet...
Ronald Reagan came into office fervently embracing the notion that Uncle Sam should take off his coat and tie, roll up his sleeves and actively oppose Soviet henchmen in the back alleys of the world. Reagan's motivation was quite explicitly connected with Viet Nam. He felt it was high time to demonstrate that the U.S. had recovered from the paralysis and pessimism caused by the trauma of the only war it ever lost...
...means, "The subterranean train track is dangerous." Though it refers to the electrified third rail and not to the dangers inside the trains, few New Yorkers would argue with its broader implications. Fewer still, however, have seen the sign recently. It has been obscured in most cars by coat after coat of indecipherable graffiti...
Shura, 37, a bearded artist in a faded sheepskin coat, a fur hat tipped to one side of his head. He beckoned toward a darkened doorway before speaking: "Lenin was the only one who thought about us; all the leaders who followed him were ambitious. That is why Brezhnev let us live our own lives; he lived a pretty nice one himself, eh? I have a friend who knows people in the Central Committee. He says that Gorbachev knows what he is about, that he is with it. Say, let's sneak off for a drink. Why huddle here discussing...
...voice is assured, unequivocal; the speaker wears a white lab coat, the mantle of medical authority. New technologies, intones New York City Obstetrician Bernard Nathanson, "have convinced us beyond question that the unborn child is simply another member of the human community. Now, for the first time," he continues, "we have the technology to see abortion from the victim's vantage point. We are going to watch a child being torn apart, dismembered, disarticulated, crushed and destroyed by the unfeeling steel instruments of the abortionist...