Word: compliantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crusty moralist in MacDonald -- familiar, especially, from his gratifyingly mordant asides in the Travis Magee books -- finally erupts when Rowan and his wife split up. Rowan castigates the self-sufficient woman his wife has become and complains that he wants his "compliant, noncombative, dependent, absorbed-in-me girl back." MacDonald responds with two long, tough letters describing Rowan's attitude as an "adolescent dream" and maintaining that his celebrity has given him an "iron insistence upon being totally right in all things." After this, does Rowan take MacDonald's well-intentioned scolding to heart and renew the friendship...
...uncharacteristic little blip of daring. His four-week silence after the scandal surfaced had drawn considerable sneering. Even Nancy Reagan privately began running him down. She told friends that Bush's lack of public support for her husband was inexcusable, a remarkable reaction considering the Vice President's long compliant service. Bush and his wife have tirelessly courted the Reagans, routinely dispatching approving notes after public appearances by the President or his wife. Reagan himself held no such dark feelings about Bush and told...
Nearly seven years after the Soviet Union sent 80,000 troops into Afghanistan to install a more compliant puppet regime in the capital of Kabul, fighting throughout the country, though still indecisive, has grown more intense than ever. A few months ago, heavy Soviet offenses had pushed the resistance to the brink of collapse. Recently, however, the anti-Communist mujahedin rebels have struck back with some of their most punishing assaults...
...case of a private Manhattan Beach preschool that was shut down last November; seven teachers were indicted on 207 counts of rape, sodomy and sexual abuse. The prosecutor charged last week that one of the defendants drugged a seven-year-old boy to make him sexually compliant. Such horrific tales are becoming depressingly familiar. Said Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola: "This kind of child abuse has been going on for a long time...
...that incoming missiles can be destroyed well before they reach their targets without resorting to defensive nuclear explosions. Some scientists believe that radioactive fallout from such interceptions would be minimal, since the target warheads would be demolished without exploding. The Army insisted that Homing Overlay was "completely and absolutely compliant" with the 1972 anti-ballistic missile (ABM) treaty between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. that banned the deployment of defensive missile systems while allowing experiments to proceed. (The Soviets were permit ted to keep the ABM system they had already built to defend Moscow.) So far, the Soviets have...