Word: essayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Honduras was not even scheduled to arrive there until Aug. 1." Nelan, however, was able to draw on information he had gleaned during a three-week trip in June through five Central American countries to assess the military situation. Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott, who wrote this week's Essay, could also call on firsthand knowledge gained from two recent visits to Central America...
...assume that the Essay "Women Are Getting Out of Hand" [July 18] was written in jest. However, I must respond to your closing comment: "Clearly the future belongs to women." With the ERA not passed, with women being paid only 59? for every dollar that men earn, and with reproductive freedom still threatened, it is hardly assured that "the future belongs to women...
Part of the unease in Congress, however, is prompted not by inept legislative tactics or even doubts about what seem to be poorly coordinated strategic decisions, but by a feeling that the Administration is trying for a "quick fix" in Central America (see ESSAY). Discouraged by the length and uncertain prospects of economic and diplomatic efforts, irritated by the difficulties of winning congressional approval for their strategy and feeling themselves under pressure to produce measurable progress in Central America before the 1984 presidential campaign gets fully under way, some White House advisers are pushing for a combination of military moves...
...Conn. In his 35 years with the magazine, Bobby Baker covered areas ranging from national and foreign affairs to art and architecture. But his deep love of literature produced some of his most memorable writing, including cover stories on Robert Frost (1950) and André Malraux (1955), and an essay on the state of American poetry...
Tony's precocious third-grade essay, "Why I Would Hate to Be a Basement," has long been enshrined in local lore, but his early academic promise has led only to idle fancying. Miss Doubloon, the lad's current teacher, explains to his anxious parents: "He would rather read novels in which the characters toy with a little Brie while waiting for their friends to turn up along the boulevard. If we can't get Anthony to concentrate, and hard, on the War of 1812 and obtuse triangles-" The pupil interrupts: "Like the dumb postmaster and his wife...