Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first he kept an uncharacteristically low profile, quietly seething over / the press and congressional reaction to Iranscam. But eventually and probably inevitably, Patrick Buchanan, the White House's bombastic director of communications, could contain himself no longer. Having served Nixon during the dark days of Watergate, he feels he knows how best to handle the current scandal. "These crises have a certain rhythm," says the old pro. "First it's a news story, then a policy controversy, then an investigation -- and then it turns into a political war. When it goes political, you've got to go into it full...
...shuffled inside a cordon of burly bodyguards to take the witness chair in Room 2118 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Staring down at him from their two rows of seats, the members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee itched to ask their questions. If anyone should know the dark secrets behind the Iran-contra connection, this was the man. He heads all of the nation's intelligence agencies. He has a special fondness for clandestine operations. He holds Cabinet rank and sits on the National Security Council, and his advice and friendship are deeply valued by the President...
...willing to listen but not hear. As former aides cloaked themselves in the Fifth Amendment, and new revelations poured forth, Reagan kept repeating that he wanted all the facts to emerge. Yet he did nothing on his own to break open the mysteries. Revealing an insouciance that is the dark side of his charm, he told a friend, "I watch every day like everybody else to find out what will come out. I'm as puzzled and interested as anybody...
...playground, where the move counts as much as the basket, "winners' out" is the rule. Score the hoop, keep the ball. Win the game, maintain the court. Hold out until dark if you can, or at least until twilight...
...Center in Illinois, which studies the relation of religious values to a broad range of medical and health issues. Modern medical treatment, says Marty, is central because it demonstrates "what we think humans are, and what justice is." Finally, there is talk that next spring Marty will be a dark-horse nominee in the election of the national bishop who will lead the large new Lutheran Church to be created by the merger of three branches of that faith...