Word: flew
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jimmy Carter also flew home last week, to make plans for his own transition. In Plains he visited his mother, who is recuperating from a hip injury, and cleared out her house in town, which he will rent for less than $250 a month, to use as his office. Unlike Reagan. Carter departed with no get-off quip, but Mondale, who plans to join a Washington law firm, had an exit line that elicited a response any vaudevillian would envy...
...grin, with all the success of a novice poker player hiding a royal flush. He relishes answering questions by formulating quotable one-liners and piling adjectives upon metaphors. Occasionally, when he crosses the line from irrepressibility to irreverence, Brady gets into trouble. Once, aboard the campaign plane as it flew over a Louisiana forest fire, he gleefully shouted: "Killer trees! Killer trees!" The reference to Reagan's campaign gaffe about the contribution of trees to air pollution grounded him for a week. Yet he asserts...
...rapid-fire exchange of messages volleyed between the capitals. Tantalizing public statements from Iranian leaders suggested that a secret Algerian plan could provide a solution to the crisis. As suspense mounted, Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher flew to Algiers to explain the U.S. position to the Algerian officials who are serving as diplomatic intermediaries between the U.S. and Iran. Said Christopher: "The process is continuing, and the distance between us which is still measured in very large numbers, seems to be narrowing somewhat. ] emphasize seems...
Faculty members considered a lawsuit charging breach of contract. "The plans are madness," snorted John West, assistant professor of political science, who flew back from Paris for the new term only to discover that his class had been scrapped. Students registered for West's course in Middle Eastern Politics found themselves dumped into...
...Idaho Falls, Idaho, school book review committee did not make a big splash when it voted, 21 to 1, to ban One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest-in response to one parent's objection to some of the language. It was not much bigger news when Anaheim, Calif., school officials authorized a list of approved books that effectively banned many previously studied books, including Richard Wright's classic Black Boy. And who recalls the Kanawha, Iowa, school board's banning The Grapes of Wrath because some scenes involved prostitutes...