Word: doe
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...recipient was the most important person in the world. Classmates at Smith College may have been the first to notice it; she developed it further in Hollywood while wooing Ronald Reagan. But the gaze became most famous during Nancy Reagan's days in the White House: the frozen, doe-eyed stare of adoration that the First Lady would fix on the President whenever she watched him speak...
...settlement's terms. Charles Taylor, the guerrilla leader whose army controls the countryside, objected to a provision disqualifying him, as well as opposing commanders, from heading a transitional regime in Monrovia. "I expect to head the interim government," he announced. Prince Yeduo Johnson, whose force killed President Samuel Doe in September, denounced the statement: "Charles Taylor is not going to tell the Liberian people what he wants...
Much in the style of Liberia's late President Samuel Doe, Siad Barre, a onetime policeman who seized power in a military coup in 1969, sealed his own fate by depending more and more on his kinsmen and overreacting to any challenge to his autocratic rule. Former U.S. diplomat Chester Crocker, a professor at Georgetown University, calls Siad Barre an "old-style, feudal, tribal chieftain." The country is ethnically homogeneous -- 98.8% are Somalis -- so there are no significant tribal hatreds. But its 8 million people are split into rival clans that have been battling one another for centuries...
Marina was admitted to a local hospital as Jane Doe, since none of us were related to her. Mom, Greg and Joe went on to the eye doctor and I took the bus to work, knowing there was, at the moment, nothing more we could...
After nine months and more than 5,000 deaths, the civil war in Liberia sputters on. The U.S. had hoped the capture of President Samuel Doe by insurgents and his death two weeks ago would immediately lead to negotiations among rival rebels Prince Yormie Johnson and Charles Taylor, the remnants of Doe's loyal soldiers, and troops from a five-nation West African peacekeeping force...