Word: done
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just do not see, substantively, where we would have or should have done much differently," one of his closest aides said last week. "But obviously, we should be saying it differently." Concludes a Washington foreign policy analyst: "The whole post-World War ΙΙ era is crumbling. The international rules are such that any small country, or even any band of terrorists, can do more or less what it wants, and given the decline in the ability of the great powers to intervene, there is really nothing that we or anybody else can do about...
Barnet followed his own rules to the letter. He arrived early every morning -not to get any work done, but to peruse the desks of everyone else in the office, thus keeping one step ahead of his superiors. He would gleefully fill me in on his findings the moment I arrived, the first wave in a day-long deluge of chatter that made it impossible for either of us to get any work done. My life became a mind-numbing swamp of monologues about who got what promotion, why it was undeserved, which employees hated each other and why. "That...
...expressionist slather. The Gorgon, 1943, a wretched parody of Monet applied to a surrealist syntax, may be the least inept of these. If anything, they showed how far Magritte's real gifts lay from the orthodox processes of modernism. Nor did his first essays in the surrealist manner, done in 1925-26, indicate much about the artist to come; they are, for the most part, grab bags of motifs from other painters, chiefly Ernst and Giorgio de Chirico...
Sparing its practitioners long drives up to the mountains and interminable lift waits, cross-country skiing can be done virtually anywhere: on snow-covered golf courses, cow pastures, backyards, city parks and streets. Yet those who want competition can have it. Some 4,500 resolute skiers entered last weekend's American-Birkebeiner cross-country race, a 55-km (34.2 miles) trek through the frozen marshes, forests and lakes of northern Wisconsin. (Last year the same race drew about 3,000 entries...
...park administrator's view, "No one is competent to do the hike alone. It only takes one slip. Mr. Yates had good equipment and seemed a capable individual but he shouldn't have done it by himself," continued Tibbs...