Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aquino issued an election eve statement in theform of a prayer: "Deliver us from this evil, thiscrisis which 20 years of evil rule has broughtus." She holds Marcos responsible for the death ofher husband, Benigno Aquino, who was a visitingprofessor at Harvard before being assassinatedupon his return to his homeland...
...limit, it became what Co-Sponsor Rudman wryly called "a bad idea whose time has come." There was no time for committee hearings; many members never read the measure that gave away their responsibilities, but they overwhelmingly voted for it; final approval came at 10:15 p.m. on the eve of the prospective default, and then it was soon time to go home for Christmas. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus...
Then came the political commitments. Reagan had repeatedly promised that he would not cut Social Security, so Social Security would have to be exempted too, and he also exempted military payrolls. As this kind of budget-eve bargaining agitated Washington last week, it was clear that the oysters with the strongest political power would indeed escape injury--at least in the first round--but other cuts would then have to be correspondingly deeper...
Benjamin, age 8, climbs up into the kitchen sink for his eve- ning bath, as his sister Daisy climbs out. Rose throws a towel over Daisy, shampoos Benjamin, tells Davey and Joey to get pajamas on the twins...
...been kind to the Screaming Eagles of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division. In December 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge, the paratroopers of the 101st were under siege in Bastogne, Belgium, short of food and ammunition and encircled by German panzer units. In a Christmas Eve message to his men, Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe asked rhetorically, "What's merry about all this? We're fighting, it's cold, we aren't home." Yet McAuliffe cheered up his troops, who held on valiantly until the German advance was blunted. The general's one-word reply to a Nazi...