Word: explained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...history, are touting a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. Reagan recently revived the proposal after a two-year lapse, and a group of Republicans last week challenged the Democrats to permit the full House to vote on the amendment. The sponsors, however, were utterly at a loss to explain how the amendment would actually produce a no-deficit budget next year (Reagan's own proposals project a $180.4 billion deficit for 1985), except by instilling a somewhat mystical "discipline." Nor did Reagan clear the air much at week's end when he told his radio audience that...
...argument over Nixon's place in history is an argument that nobody can win in the foreseeable future, so Nixon is probably destined to spend years as a kind of Ancient Mariner, plucking at the lapels of passers-by and trying to explain his strange story. But there are other, more pleasant sides to an ex-President's life. One of Nixon's reasons for moving from California to New York in 1980 was to be nearer his daughters. Tricia lives in Manhattan with her lawyer-husband Edward Cox; Julie in Berwyn, Pa., with her husband David...
Will it help to explain that his nickname was Spider? Spider Nissen. Henry Nissen, a.k.a. Hank Nissen, a.k.a. Spider Nissen and the last clung to him like a bad smell. He had a touch of the hyena for that matter--the same we-eat-tainted-meat-together intimacy that burns out of a hyena's eyes behind the bars of his cage. So Spider Nissen would look at me and give a giggle as if we had both had a girl together, and each took turns sitting on her head...
Walter Tucker, a local dentist who has played a clergyman in The Lost Colony for the past six years, made it through a scene in which he lies supine and ill and then took it upon himself to explain his devotion to the production...
...another central theme. For instance while George and Lila insist on referring to PS's mother as "Dear One." Vanessa tells PS to say "my mother." Some of the most important...and visually beautiful--scenes are shot in the wild and grassy cemetery where Sinden is buried Unwilling to explain the mystery and loss of death to the boy. Lila and George tell him Sinden is with the angels. Vanessa sets him straight...