Word: craning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua extended his hand toward Andropov's, the slow-moving queue of dignitaries came to a halt for three minutes while the two men talked volubly through an interpreter. The tall, stooped Soviet leader looked more than ever like a Russian zhuravl, or crane, as he bent forward to speak to the diminutive Chinese envoy. By contrast, Andropov's other greetings seemed lukewarm, even toward such friends of the Soviet Union as Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Syrian President Hafez Assad...
Stand-up executives still keep sit-down desks in their offices, but they use them mainly for meetings. Some, like Fenwick Crane, chairman of the Family Life Insurance Co. of Seattle, avoid them as much as they can. Asked when Chairman Crane used his, his secretary, Mimy Fisker, replied, "To read the Wall Street Journal...
...State Treasure's race, Robert Q Crane is vying against Barnstable County Treasurer Mary LeClair LeClair is hopeful, but she said, "I wish I had more time...
...Crane, who has raised about $100,000 is confident that he will win along with the other three Democrats. He is looking for his fifth full term as the State's top accountant...
Councilor David A. Wylie objected to Crane's proposal, stating that landlords are not entitled to collect benefits for inflation in many of the items computed in those statistics...