Word: fire
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think you could say that President Roosevelt, Mr. Churchill and Mr. Stalin were starry-eyed idealists. They had been through the fire of war. Did anybody really think in 1945 that every government would renounce the use of force in its relations with every other government, and agree to settle all disputes with peaceful means, and disarm? This was the aim. The U.N. Charter was a great beacon set on a hill, the great light toward which we were supposed to be working. We haven't had World War III. I don't see any reason to be downhearted...
Friel, the losingest coach in Division I basketball--who has come under fire from the New Hampshire administration for not winning enough--was overjoyed by the outcome...
Other perplexing questions the writer for the new version of the television classic said he must wrestle with include deciding whether characters should fire phaser guns or photon torpedoes...
That repeat version of Reagan's 1981 rosy scenario came under fire from Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, who told the National Economic Commission on Wednesday that the supply-side approach was "fanciful" and implied that Bush's "flexible freeze" plan for reducing the budget would not work. "If we do not act promptly," said Greenspan, "the imbalances in the economy are such that the effects of the deficit will be increasingly felt and with some immediacy...
From the moment Sununu's appointment leaked last week, it drew fire from supporters of Israel who were troubled by his refusal in 1986 to join the 49 other Governors in signing a proclamation condemning a 1975 U.N. resolution that equated Zionism with racism. Sununu, whose father is Lebanese, mollified critics with the explanation that he later recognized his mistake and supported the strongly pro-Israel plank in the 1988 Republican platform. "One learns from what goes on," he acknowledged. The flak aimed at Sununu spurred Bush to accelerate by 24 hours his tapping of the chief of staff, after...