Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authority has continued to slide. When former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was named chairman of a special commission on Central America, one of Shultz's staffers lamented, "Well, so much for Shultz being in charge." Shultz and his colleagues at State were even kept in the dark about the timing of the naval operations off the Nicaraguan coast. "We find out about our policy options in the morning paper," complains one official...
...Bettino Craxi, 49, was already beginning to look like the Prime Minister he has yearned so long to become. Gone were the open-necked shirts, safari jackets and jeans he had taken to wearing in Parliament in an attempt to project a populist image. Last week he was wearing dark, tailored suits as he held court with fellow politicians, labor leaders and business executives at a long oval table in the Chamber of Deputies' ornate Sala di Governo. With a mandate from President Sandro Pertini to form Italy's 44th postwar government, Craxi was trying to cobble together...
...dark, snowy Hida peaks had gone into another weather, but in the valley the day was warm, and a butterfly winged wobbly through an open window of the slow coach, turned a circle and flew on out the other side. Many things-insects, machines, workers-chugged slowly...
...night long the birds struck their calls against the dark. Toward dawn the cuckoos got into it with their ceaseless two notes, then a rooster, and finally the chirping small ones-buntings and white-eyes-until the morning was a racketing...
Book of World Records as the longest movie series; the 31st Tora-San feature will be released in August. But none of these genres is likely to restore Japan to international prominence. Times look dark in the cinema of the rising...