Word: ducking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dead shot from the Chilean shooting team (and intelligence community) has been denied a visa for being too deadly, and the elegant Cuban baseball players have had to duck leaflets, airplane streamers and a brigade of fat bench jockeys in BAY OF PIGS T shirts. Worse than that, Cuba's team lost to the Americans, 6-4. By the gold-medal count, Cuba (51) and the U.S. (104) are already assured of second and first place, though the outcome of last week's most poignant ideological clash was ambiguous...
...recovery from the doldrums inflicted by a triple whammy last November: the uproar over his sale of U.S. arms to terrorist Iran, his failure to keep the Senate in Republican hands, and his almost automatic reduction, once the final midterm elections of his presidency were behind him, to lame-duck status...
Instead, thus 351-year-old monolithic institution would rather duck behind a group of 20-year-old students with noble intentions, and let them take the heat for their problems. If Harvard is going to continue to interract with PBH, it must take responsibility for the organization's mistakes, as well...
...friendly staff add up to delightful if fairly expensive dinners. Good starters are the creamed wild-mushroom soup and the goujonettes of Dover sole, the crisply fried ribbons of fish bedded down on greens and topped with a creamy vinaigrette dressing. Green peppercorns add pungency to nicely sauteed duck breast, and the impeccably sauteed, crisp-yet- supple sweetbreads are delicious, even though their tomato-flavored sauce can be too intense...
Somewhere along the line, Lawson, an odd duck by any measure, got press smart. He knew he was photogenic, he knew he was bright, and he knew his cause was right. Innocent black man arrested for taking a hike? It was a natural. The notoriety his case received has led to his involvement in other "meaningful battles," as he calls them...