Word: em
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whole thing was about. One family meddling in the other's interests." Another McCoy, twice the mayor's age, takes his own backhanded swipe: "Those poor Hatfields, as I understand it, were too easy with their drinking back then. It took away their sense, made 'em too brave." Given the chance, Hatfields abandon impartiality as well. Says Henry D. cheerfully: "Really, the Hatfields won the feud. Devil Anse would have ended it any time. But Randolph McCoy was so irate. . ." Even Dutch, appalled by his ancestors' attack on a McCoy family home in 1888, reminds...
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...James Watt was signed on as Interior Secretary, he told the President exactly what policies he wanted to pursue. Federal lands must be opened for development of energy and mineral resources, said Watt, pledging to undo "50 years or so of bad Government." Said a delighted Reagan: "Sic 'em." And Watt did, promptly becoming the most ideologically controversial member of the Cabinet. As he puts it: "I was brought in to yell down a new chain of command on environmental issues. I yelled, and to my surprise, I was obeyed." He proposed offering for lease 1 billion new acres...
...once told a visiting group of Palestinian journalists that "the Arabs must be ready to sacrifice a million lives to regain the sacred soil of Palestine." It was rhetoric, a flourish; Arabs hearing it would no more take it literally than would an American football crowd hearing "Rip 'em Up, tear 'em up." But the words made headlines all over the world as a statement of bloody Saudi intent...
...Brewer, owner of Brigham's, a traditional Phools' Week haunt, said he wasn't sure whether the Lampoon brigade stopped by this semester. "They may have--or they may have been nuts--we throw 'em all out," he said...