Word: deepest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Asiatics' love of bright colors, too, is betrayed by the plastic paint they slap on everywhere, which flakes and peels as the colors of their native fabrics and tiles never did." A few passages border on old-fashioned disrespectful wog-whomping, though some of the author's deepest disdain is reserved for the scraggly, underwashed Western students who can be found everywhere: "They were hot and smelly, and seemed to be sitting on top of me, sticking bits of themselves into me in a way Asiatics...
Perhaps the deepest analysis of the campaign, indeed, is also the simplest: nothing ever happened to shake the sunny optimism and patriotic fervor Reagan has spent four years inspiring. Democrats thundered about the dangers of deficits and a nuclear-arms race, but they never raised serious doubts about Reagan's leadership. The President did not even spell out a program for his second term: it was enough to assert that "America is back, standing tall" and ask crowds repeatedly, "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" They invariably roared back "Yes!" They did the same with...
...that could match Reagan's simply stated program of less government and more defense. He conceded last week that even his best shots, such as his opposition to Reagan's Star Wars proposal, did not seem to be "resonating with the voters." So he began preaching his deepest beliefs, the gospel handed down to him by his mentor, Hubert Humphrey: that government is a force for good, that society has a duty to care for its weak and poor and dispossessed. Rising at 5 a.m., hitting three or four states a day, drawing large, enthusiastic crowds...
...second phase." Actually, the proposal unveiled by the President personally in a speech in May 1982 would have reduced the numbers of submarine-launched as well as land-based missiles at the start, though warheads on bombers would indeed have been saved for a later phase. The deepest reductions would have been in land-based missiles...
...news spread through the 7,100-island archipelago, it was greeted first with incredulity-and then with joy. After more than a year of suspense, the 54.5 million people of the Philippines had at last received an authoritative confirmation of their deepest suspicion: the military did it. Specifically, a fact-finding board appointed by President Ferdinand Marcos concluded that Benigno Aquino, the exiled opposition leader assassinated at Manila International Airport on Aug. 21, 1983, only moments after his return to the Philippines, was not killed by Rolando Galman, the alleged Communist gunman who was identified by the military...