Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lebanon. At the time of the Israeli withdrawal in early September, McFarlane had proposed that Marines be used to take over certain military positions in the Chouf. He also sought permission to move the Marines into the Chouf as part of a cease-fire offer. In a rare display of agreement, Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger prevailed upon Reagan to refuse, fearing for the lives of the Marines and also, perhaps, for the political consequences...
...gala opening of The Right Stuff in Washington on Oct. 16, evidently recognizing that it would be unseemly to exploit the movie so blatantly. After all, it would just not do for a onetime astronaut, a guy who is decreed by Hollywood to have you-know-what, to display a touch of vainglory. - By James Kelly. Reported by Sam Allis/ Washington and Denise Worrell/Los Angeles
Lien recalls that by virtue of their young ages (10, 11, and 17) and sparrow-like proportions, she and her brothers were able to survive within the regime that tolerated only non-threatening individuals with "blank" or "uncorrupted" minds. Execution followed any display of intelligence, education or disgruntlement and eavesdropping was used regularly to ferret out individuals and families who posed a potential threat to the new order...
...unnecessarily aggressive in the realm of East-West relations. In the eyes of some resident U.S. citizens, that criticism has undertones of a more generalized anti-Americanism. On the whole, protest has so far been peaceful: demonstrations in front of the American consulate in Frankfurt, or the display in a Lübeck storefront of quotes designed to portray the U.S. as a warmonger. (Example: "We don't want war, but. . ." attributed to former NATO Commander and Secretary of State Alexander Haig.) Occasionally the mood has turned ugly. When U.S. Vice President George Bush visited the city of Krefeld...
...true fanatics, however try to avoid sexual distractions as they strain to emulate the perfect bodies that are on display in venues like Muscle Beach in Venice, Calif. They muscle up in purely functional sweatshops; Rena's Gym in Chicago, for example, has no juice bars, hanging plants or fancy locker rooms here, just true grit. "You don't come to this gym to meet people," says Owner Rena Ettlinger, whose exercise instructors are all physiologists trained in kinesiology, the science of body movement. "The goal here is long, lean, tight, firm bodies that are powerful all over...