Word: curtaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Offensive Line: Everyone had to take the blame against Dartmouth, including this meaty unit. Four starters from the 1987 Ivy League championship team are back. Guards Maurice Frilot and Shawn Sensky, center Tony Consigli and tackle John Bartholomew are going to have to be Yohe's Iron Curtain against Princeton...
Bush, trying to avoid overconfidence, campaigned in Fulton, Mo., and invoked the memory of Winston Churchill at the Westminster College where Churchill delivered his 1946 "iron curtain" speech warning of Soviet expansionism in Eastern Europe...
Bush said the demarcation between East and West is now "a rusting curtain." He said that if elected he would be wary of Soviet intentions, despite what he called more enlightened leadership under Mikhail Gorbachev...
...country. Nearly 4 million people signed their names in get-well registers. Although 60% of Japan's 123 million citizens were born after the 1947 constitution stripped the monarchy of divinity, the national vigil demonstrated that the monarchy still meant something more than the chrysanthemum crest on a ceremonial curtain. "The Emperor is the center of Japan's national psyche," said Seisuke Okuno, a 75-year-old Liberal Democratic member of parliament. That sentiment was not restricted to the old or the far right. The Japanese press has depicted a nation united in sorrow over the impending loss...
...weapon of repression, it now functions as a sophisticated instrument of state control, both at home and abroad. But despite the change of image, the KGB still inspires fear and loathing. As a letter in the magazine Ogonyok put it last August, "The time has come to lift the curtain of secrecy from the KGB's activities -- otherwise how can it be controlled by a society that knows nothing about...