Word: expression
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Pretty soon the sun, an orange gob, slid down the cobalt sky, and the field lights came on. Slab-sided referees took their positions. The combatants appeared, 17-year-old Texans big around as the bole of a sequoia born when the local mail came by Pony Express. The Midland band played Dixie. Young drill teams strutted: the dancers had the tendony legs of Appaloosas--and orthodontia that cost the earth. A student gave the prayer over the loudspeaker: "Thanks for getting us here O.K., Lord, and I just pray you let the boys play without any harm to anyone...
Publicly, Reaganites express confidence that the President will successfully blend his procapitalist ideological toughness with an informed shrewdness about Soviet stratagems. "He's been preparing for this for 25 years," says ex-Aide Michael Deaver, who is helping with summit public relations. One prepper goes so far as to label Reagan's elaborately prepared briefing materials as mere "refresher reading." Still, sighs one Sovietologist, "let's face it. He's starting from such a low base that any knowledge would be an improvement." Reagan is so supremely confident of his ability to persuade the Soviets of the virtues...
...American's rivals: "Seats to all the really good places are sold out anyway. American may have five or six routes where tickets hadn't been selling, and they wanted to fill those planes." One airline that has abstained so far from the Thanksgiving bargains is People Express. The discount carrier said it was busy enough and had already lowered some prices to Western destinations served by Frontier, the airline that People acquired in October...
...said the still glowing actor afterward. "We did well together." Of her much discussed clothes, Couturier Geoffrey Beene observed in the New York Times: "Some of the design is not on target to me as a professional, but who cares? Her presence overcomes any banalities of dress." The London Express's royal watcher Jean Rook concluded, "She has given America what it craved, glamour, glitz . . . Dianasty." There were some fluffed lines, to be sure. At the White House banquet, President Reagan introduced her first as "Princess David," then "Princess Diane." For his part, Charles spoke briefly and sat down, forgetting...
...rather to lure talented Harvard students into exciting careers with agencies for which torture, mass deportations, assassinations, and other violations of human rights are standard practices. I was there to inform others of these practices (with a fact sheet we handed to everyone in attendance), express my disgust for these practices, and interfere with the recruitment process that makes them possible...