Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...installed as leader of Czechoslovakia's Communist Party in 1969, during the tumult of "normalization" that followed the Soviet-led invasion of his country the previous summer. Last week Husak, 74, exited under conditions that were even more extraordinary. By asking to step down as party chief and nominating fellow Politburo Member Milos Jakes, 65, to replace him, he became the first leader in Soviet-dominated East bloc history to give up power voluntarily...
...scrambling for bags of grain dropped from the sky. What started out as a trickle of aid turned into a billion-dollar flood. The U.S., the largest donor, sent $500 million, and that does not include millions in private contributions. Irish Rocker Bob Geldof enlisted the help of his fellow musicians, dubbed his crusade Band Aid and raised $140 million. The rescue effort was plagued by delays and controversy, and some 1 million Ethiopians eventually died. But more would have perished if the world had not responded so generously...
Gorbachev told Perle he had seen a new film, from Britain's Granada television and shown last week on PBS, that dramatized the Reykjavik summit. "The fellow who played you lost a lot of weight," laughed Gorbachev to the pleasantly padded Perle, who relished the notoriety...
That probably wouldn't be the best slogan for Gary Hart, who also is attempting a return from the electoral netherworld. While Nixon resurrected himself by assiduously courting fellow Republicans and trying to make amends for past behavior, the "New Gary" is an entirely unrepentant fellow who didn't tell even his best friends that he was going to re-enter the fray. Hart seems determined to become the Sidney Biddle Barrows of presidential politics, unremorsefully parlaying shameful private conduct into public acclaim...
Perhaps it was an especially large dose of Christmas spirit that moved my dorm mates, or perhaps they just didn't want to disappoint a fellow student who was obviously very committed to a cause. In any event, both of my friends ended up adding their names to the hundreds at the bottom of the form. And neither of my friends bothered to read what they were signing...