Word: cupboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their progress: "He was struggling with himself. There was the constant repetition of the idea of breaking a chain." "I'm worried about him -- it's so hard to see where he's operating from." "He broke down yesterday in the divorce scene." "He's coming out from the cupboard." "He wants to do a birthday-party scene in which his father dies...
...goes to her cupboard, finds no food...
...number of Republicans, remain convinced that the U.S. cannot afford as much of an arms buildup as Reagan has proposed. Says a Capitol Hill staffer: "If there were a way to provide 3% real growth for defense, you can bet that the Democrats would do it. But the cupboard is bare. There's nothing there...
Once again emergency aid had become a hostage to politics and war. Wau's always depleted cupboard began emptying fast two weeks ago when rebels using a Soviet SA-7 missile shot down a twin-engine Sudan Airways passenger plane as it took off from the southern town of Malakal for Khartoum. The attack, which killed all 63 persons aboard, caused international relief agencies to suspend food shipments to southern Sudan, where some 2 million people face death by starvation. The shooting took place just one day after the Sudanese People's Liberation Army had warned that "any plane, military...
Several years ago, French Screenwriter and Author Marguerite Duras recovered some notebooks stashed away in a cupboard. They dated from the last days of World War II, and in them she had recorded her anguished waiting for news of her husband, a concentration camp deportee. The diary she later published as The War records his return; he was so emaciated and weak that the weight of a cherry would lacerate his stomach. Duras also includes a chilling portrait of the Gestapo officer who arrested her husband and who then, impressed by Duras's literary reputation, tried to court her, confiding...