Word: failed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fail to see any justification for your tasteless photograph of the body of one of my fallen comrades, the helicopter pilot lying dead on the beach...
RESIGNED. A. James Armstrong, 59, respected and influential liberal Protestant clergyman; from the presidency of the National Council of Churches and his position as bishop of Indiana's United Methodist Church; in Indianapolis. Armstrong said that job pressures had caused him to fail "my loved ones" and "the Gospel." Despite rumors of strain in his marriage, his wife later issued a statement, saying, "Jim and I are not separated. We have never been separated. We will never be separated...
...when Emma moves out, Aurora discovers that her child has no corner on inappropriate males. After Flap takes a job in Des Moines ("You can't even fail locally," cries Aurora, whose contempt for her son-in-law is her one immutable, hilarious quality), a plaintive note creeps into her obsessive phone calls to her daughter. Parent is now becoming a dependent, in need of a confidante, especially with that astronaut orbiting around...
...House was a surprise revolt by a group of 26 freshmen Democrats against the House leadership. Impatient with inaction on revenue-producing remedies for the deficit, they threatened to vote against the continuing resolution as a symbolic protest. Their unlikely alliance with conservative Republicans caused the mea sure to fail by a 203-to-206 vote. "We want to send a message to various powers that be," declared Freshman Congressman Jim Moody of Wisconsin. "We want the deficits attacked...
This is not to say that American policy in Lebanon might not fail. It is to say that if it does, it will fail on its own terms. There will be no decade-long war of attrition in a tropical jungle against a unified enemy with a long history of successful anticolonial warfare. That was the last war, though the politicians (not the generals this time) are busy preparing for it still. In Lebanon everything is different: the terrain, the players, the tactics, the goals and the intentions of American leaders. But we disdain mundane details like history, geography...