Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stalvey took his story to the American Civil Liberties Union, which had no doubt that Justice had behaved unconstitutionally simply because the messenger was a medium. After some defensive mumbling, Justice retreated. "Obviously we're not going to keep people out because of what they're wearing," said Meese...
...meaning numbers of troops, ships and planes, and of axing "lower priority, marginal" weapons systems, especially those still in the research-and-developm ent stage. But so far, he refuses to chop any of the superexpensive weapons programs that such experts as former Defense Secretaries Brown and James Schlesinger doubt the Pentagon could have afforded even under Weinberger's spending plans...
Anthropomorphizing the machine and denaturing the operator have the intended < effect, and there is no doubt that Carolyn Chute writes for effect. Her first novel, The Beans of Egypt, Maine, socked the reader with a collection of country characters that might have escaped the pages of another resident Maine novelist, Stephen King, who does not write nearly so well as Chute but plots better...
...destructive to his friends, brutal to his women, cruelly indifferent to his children. Some of this is, of course, true, and it has not been a secret for years. The Big P.'s personal life was no oil painting, and Huffington documents it with zeal, leaving one in no doubt that he was to ordinary male chauvinist pigs what Moby Dick was to whales...
...Soviet society. To the dissidents he proclaimed that "this is a moment of hope . . . the freedom to keep the fruits of one's own labor, for example, is a freedom that the present reforms seem to be enlarging. We hope one freedom will lead to another." Aides left no doubt that Reagan was deliberately attempting to give a boost to Gorbachev, who faces key votes on further proposed reforms at a Communist Party conference beginning June 28. Reagan "believes that without Gorbachev there wouldn't be any of this" liberalization, says one adviser...