Word: faintness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moscow newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya declared. "The United States has demonstrated to the world its incompetence as the country responsible for the headquarters of the United Nations." And at the U.N., many an American friend had to admit that for once, the commentary in this polemical journal struck a faint chord of truth. How could the Soviets put the United States on the defensive before the international community just three weeks after a Russian jet ruthlessly destroyed a passenger airliner with 61 Americans aboard? The answer lies in the unfortunate actions and words of the Reagan Adminsitration following the KAL shooting...
...thoroughly has ideology taken over that the possibility of reasonable change that comes from young people succeeding their elders is faint. This deep-seated ideology, combined with the perception on the part of whites that Black, majority rule would mean their peril, makes the odds for peaceful reform slim indeed...
...college students of a new, powerful but poisonous brain stimulant called Benzedrine last week kept college directors of health in dithers of worry. Cases of over-dosage have been uncovered at the Universities of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Chicago. Elsewhere students who, while cramming for final examinations, collapse, faint, develop insomnia, or show a slowed pulse rate are under suspicion of using the substance. They call it "pep pills...
...Cabinet. The trials and tribulations of Meese-Deaver-Baker and Shultz-Clark-Weinberger have probably been covered as thoroughly as any specific issue of the economy or national security. The story keeps replaying day after day like a bad soap opera. Through it all has been the not-too-faint suggestion of an Executive structure stalled and befuddled by ignorance or enmity and always on the brink of explosion or collapse...
...steps. But for the past few years, any kind of dance has been just the wrong metaphor for Soviet-American relations. The two superpowers have been circling each other warily, sometimes menacingly. If they came together, many feared, it would be to fight. Now, suddenly, there is a faint hint of tango music...