Word: fetched
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today, oratory seems in serious, possibly terminal, decline. Americans rummaging in their memories for the last great speech they heard-great in content and delivery-often find that they must fetch back at least to 1963, to Martin Luther King Jr.'s soaring, preacherly performance during the March on Washington. Some think of John Kennedy's Inaugural Address; yet as the '60s wore on, the go-anywhere-pay-any-price rhetoric of that bright January day on the New Frontier began to seem not only suspect but even a symptom of the emptiness of eloquence...
Whatever its size, Reagan's private income enables him to pursue his goals. And as is often the case with candidates for major office or the heads of major corporations or labor unions, there always seem to be a battalion of aides to fetch a car for him, pay a restaurant bill or see that his suit is pressed. Often these outlays are covered by an expense account. Reagan's close friends insist that he would prefer a simpler, even rustic living standard. Yet he has grown to accept the perquisites he receives. Above all, they allow...
...flourishing black market. An example is Heavy Sand, by the popular adventure and mystery writer Anatoli Rybakov. Despite the large printing (150,000), readers could not get enough of this bathetic story of love and death among Jews in the Ukraine during World War II; copies now fetch $150 on the black market...
...qualities mark her fiction. One is a skill in writing about white-collar work. James is almost 60 now, and has spent her life in the British civil service. She understands the lower and middle levels of bureaucracy, and she takes the nurses, supervisors, administrators and the people who fetch their tea and coffee seriously. Though she often describes routine, her novels can be very refreshing: she is someone who writes about offices without ridicule, irony or condescension. She knows the regimen of a hospital as well as Jane Austen knew the rigid cycle of the Assembly Rooms at Bath...
There was a mood of euphoria mixed with anxiety on the Endeavor as it slipped out of Little Torch Key. Aboard were two Cuban Americans from Miami who had paid the boat's captain $5,000 to take them to Cuba to fetch 17 members of their families. It was 18 miles from the Cuban coast that the first faint harbinger of trouble surfaced: a small runabout wallowing out of gas. We secured a line and towed it in. At Mariel, the harbor gradually took on the look of a water-bound tent city: laundry fluttering from the tethered...