Word: foe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Legion," Reagan says. "I wasn't speaking to the Chamber of Commerce. I was trying to explain America and what we are all about." In his speech to Moscow's cultural elite, he gave new insight into why he finds himself breaking out of his stereotype as an unvarnished foe of what he once called the "evil empire." "In the movie business, actors often get what we call typecast," he said. "The studios come to think of you as playing certain kinds of roles, and no matter how hard you try, you just can't get them to think...
...blood had been donated by a volunteer before the show; the "diseased tissue" consisted of shreds of lamb heart, hidden in a tray behind the table and manipulated by the facile hands of a master magician: James ("the Amazing") Randi, 59, conjurer, showman, crusader and America's most implacable foe of flummery. The props and the techniques are those used by the so-called psychic surgeons of the Philippines, who promise miraculous, painless, lifesaving surgery to lure desperately ill people to their clinics. But what the sufferers get is sleight of hand, not surgery, and Randi's goal...
Still, Helms yearns to be liked and doesn't seem to grasp the extent to which he has alienated some of his brethren. Not long ago, Ted Kennedy, his $ liberal foe, was slightly injured when a tree fell on his car. "I vow that I didn't have my chain saw out there," Helms jokingly told Kennedy as they got on an elevator together. Kennedy laughed, said Helms. Perhaps, but Kennedy will not talk about Helms. Neither will Claiborne Pell, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Why not? "I have to face him," says Pell. Former Senator George McGovern feels...
...target for elimination," said Major General Amnon Shahak, the I.D.F.'s head of intelligence. Some Israelis predicted that the attack would boost morale throughout the country, and especially within an army frustrated by its inability to put down the uprising and polish Israel's international image as a formidable foe. They suggested that by robbing the P.L.O. of the man responsible for military operations against Israel, the operation had delivered the Palestinians a crippling blow that would demoralize their spirits and deflate the uprising...
Smith (3-1) had little problem with location in the real game. His first foe, freshman Ted Decareau, exited the box on a called third strike. Smith fanned the next two batters to strike out the side...