Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kennedy-to-Thurmond shift at Judiciary best reflects the altered congressional mood, as well as reveals the legislative hurdles that confront a strong new chairman. Thurmond has a wide array of proposals he would like to see enacted, including a ban on abortion except in cases of danger to a woman's life, incest or rape. He opposes busing for racial integration and wants to allow prayer in public schools. He hopes to get a constitutional amendment passed that will force the Federal Government to balance the budget...
...doubts, Nixon, with a shot glass of vodka in his hand, posed with Dobrynin for a picture, told the Ambassador that he never drank the stuff and declared that strength and reliability were the true ingredients of peace. Said Nixon: "Rather than this being a period with a danger of war, it will be the opposite." Said Kissinger: "The Soviets want a predictable Administration. And in a curious way, I think they want one that puts limits on them. Their system is not capable of operating under the principle of self-restraint." An interesting theory and an optimistic one, from...
Bowie uses his lyrics as extensions of his arrangement schemes, offering fragments of dialogue and images to complement his music. "Up The Hill Backwards," "Ashes to Ashes" and "Because You're Young" are abstruse in specific meaning, but convey a definite mood of danger and intrigue. The weakest track, "Fashion," is also the easiest to understand, a meditation on disco culture of little import...
...judge told the jurors they could find the defendants acted in self-defense if they believed evidence showed the defendants shot the Communists to protect themselves or if the circumstances led the defendants to believe their lives were in danger...
...second half went along pretty much like the first, with Harvard never really in danger of giving up a goal, keeping the ball on the offensive...