Word: cut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he testified on Capitol Hill as the first witness in the Iran-contra hearings, retired Air Force Major General Richard Secord portrayed himself as a patriotic private citizen recruited by the White House to help support the Nicaraguan contras after Congress had cut off U.S. Government assistance. Although Secord told his story without insisting on immunity from prosecution, last week he assailed the hearings in a Wall Street Journal column, calling the proceedings an "obscene spewing of information and misinformation" and an example of the nation's "periodic, spasmodic flirtation with self- destruction...
...point last week Rudman questioned Tambs about all the higher officials who had "cut and run," refusing to take responsibility for the actions of their subordinates. "Do you feel you were being hung out to dry?" he asked. "No," replied Tambs, adding with diplomatic understatement, "I do feel field officers are not being backed up by their superiors. They are seeing their careers sacrificed...
...place where you really find out what the people think -- the Georgetown cocktail parties . . . From now through the election, neither Sidey nor Osborne is to be included in the news summary regardless of what they write, positive or negative . . . I am now ordering . . . that Osborne and Sidey be cut off in as effective a way as possible. This means that their calls simply don't get returned, etc. . . . There is no appeal whatever -- I do not want it discussed...
...giving the anatomy of Andrew Jackson's rampant bronze horse an insult or two, then pull up in the club dining room and on evil days have a martini, maybe two. About then our natural leader, Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News, would shout, "Okay, boys, let's cut 'em up." There followed golden hours of bombast, insult, vituperation and disparagement aimed at Presidents, editors, academics, clergymen, members of Congress and little old ladies in tennis shoes. Osborne, the courtly Southerner, was heard on somber occasions to say "darn." Thus cleansed, we returned to duty...
...tests, while health workers fear that hysteria over the epidemic ignores its most likely victims. -- Reagan declares that the U. S. will keep the Persian Gulf open, but the details remain foggy. -- The Iran- contra hearings produce charges of profiteering among the patriots. -- Hugh Sidey discovers that he was "cut off" by Richard Nixon...