Word: coate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That phrase might have served on Churchill's coat of arms. Back home, in Parliament, he became a master of publicity. Violence in Belfast surrounded his preachings for Irish home rule. Even his worst notions drew attention. He offered a bizarre plan to incarcerate and sterilize the mentally ill. "Feebleminded girls," he said, "are the easy prey of vice and hand on their own insanity with unerring and unfailing fertility." The scheme was unworkable; the controversy precedented...
...took pains to nurture this special respect. "We were very close officially," recalls Rusk. "But I never played touch football with the Kennedys. I never got pushed into their swimming pool." Kissinger cannot remember ever going into the presence of Nixon at the White House without a coat...
...barracks, and television newscasters have hung up their ill-fitting military uniforms. Indeed, the most vivid reminder that Poles live in a state where the authorities can-and occasionally do-frisk, detain and arrest on sight is what cannot be seen any more: the once ubiquitous Solidarity pins on coat lapels and the political slogans that seemed to be scrawled on every available wall. But if the shock and fear of the first dark days of martial law have now passed, the country seems sunk in joyless apathy. Though darkness comes late to Poland's northern summer days...
...child's marble-.68 cal., someone estimated. The Nelson Paint Co. of Iron Mountain, Mich., developed the pistol to give stockmen and foresters a tool for marking cattle or trees from a distance. Shoot a steer on the flank with a Nel-Spot, and you color-coat him with a splotch of red or blue or yellow the size of a fried egg. easily recognizable at shipping time...
...conclusions about why 1980 turned out as it did. In the end, however, he refuses to say whether the election marks "twilight or dawn, an era ending or an era beginning. "He suggests that the ultimate significance of 1980 remains in the hands of Ronald Reagan and his Republican coat tail-riders, who can now either cement their tenuous 1980 coalition or embark on another "wrong turning" that could, as in the 1960s, "bring us to convulsion in the streets. "This is perhaps the one unfortunate thing about America in Search of Itself. More than any of the previous Making...