Word: excerpted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...EXCERPT: Big trouble with the Middle East and Iran-contra...
...jocks push over a heifer to prove their masculinity. In her recent book "Saturday Night in America," Susan Olean writes that "On Saturday night, there [is]...the highest number of reported incidents of cow toppling in rural Pennsylvania." This claim was prominently featured in a New York Times Magazine excerpt of the book...
...EXCERPT: In a new memoir, Ronald Reagan describes his dream of a nuclear-free world...
Cairncross's accuser is Oleg Gordievsky, who defected from the Soviet KGB in 1985 and is co-author of the new book KGB: The Inside Story. In addition to revealing in a TIME excerpt last week that President Franklin Roosevelt's key aide, Harry Hopkins, was an unwitting accomplice of the KGB, Gordievsky contends that Cairncross was a member of a spy ring that included Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt. Though Cairncross was ousted from a sensitive government post in 1951 for allegedly passing documents to the Soviets, his spy connection was never proved. Last week...
...EXCERPT: The most senior Soviet intelligence officer ever to work for the West offers a rare look inside...