Word: dinner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Radiation is such a humdrum part of their daily lives that they take the red- and-white warning signs posted along Poplar Creek in stride. When area hunters bag a deer, they routinely run parts of it past a wildlife agent for radiation tests before serving it for dinner. The sight of coverall-clad workers ( chopping down "hot" trees growing in contaminated soil causes little concern...
...that Bush ought to "fess up" to the sexual allegations, which have never been substantiated. At the very moment when he was trying to mount a consistent attack, Dukakis found himself apologizing to Bush as they met face- to-face in New York City at the annual Al Smith dinner...
...shock and horrify. Four times, by Churchill's count, firm action could have stopped Hitler without a shot's being fired; four times Britain's leaders, along with their counterparts in France, ignored or willfully misinterpreted the evidence: Hitler was hungry, and he planned to have Europe for dinner...
...raining stocks and bonds outside, but the portents don't penetrate the penthouses in Dinner at Eight, Kaufman and Ferber's glittering 1932 melodrama of the Depression. The countless plots revolve around a dinner party, an exercise in social climbing rendered all the sillier when the titled English guests of honor pop off to Florida hours before the soiree. While the featherbrained, steel-hearted hostess is lamenting lost social lions and lopsided lobster aspic, she fails to see that her daughter's impending marriage is on the shoals and that her husband's shipping business, the source...
...idea of a summer institute for undergraduates that would promote the study of classical Western thought first arose over a year ago when Bennett was having dinner with Bloom. Bloom, a mordant critic of higher education and author of the best-selling The Closing of the American Mind, and Bennett agreed that it was time to find a new way to bring back more traditional curricula on college campuses...