Word: foe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dead for now and forever in this century," said a joyous Phyllis Schlafly, the amendment's leading foe, at a press conference in Washington. There was no conciliatory gesture to ERA backers, whom she termed "con men" and "vicious people...
Sean's triumph is something more than diverting summer fiction for Greeley. For years he was an outspoken foe of the late, scandal-plagued Archbishop of Chicago, John Cardinal Cody ("One of the most truly evil men I have ever known," he once said). Assuming Cody's position would be the ultimate revenge. That is a basic problem with Thy Brother's Wife: its mean streak. Most of the tragedies in the novel result not from too much lovemaking but too much getting even. Perhaps this is less a reflection of Greeley's art than...
...offensive progressed, the Soviets discovered just how frustrating it can be for a cumbersome, heavily equipped modern army to try to catch up with a smaller, highly motivated and elusive guerrilla foe. They would send in five or six helicopters to circle the area; by the time each helicopter had moved into position, most of the villagers had scurried into shelters. Moreover, many of the bombs failed to detonate, mostly because they ricocheted off mountain rocks. The guerrillas promptly sawed the bombs open, removing the explosives for use as mines. Total casualties after the Soviets dropped 223 bombs...
...Kirkpatrick's brusque manner has ruffled friend and foe alike, and occasionally dulls her effectiveness as a diplomat. Last year, for example, when 93 "nonaligned" countries signed a document criticizing the U.S. for, among other things, "aggression," after a pair of U.S. Navy jets shot down two Libyan fighters over the Gulf of Sidra, Kirkpatrick lashed out with a letter accusing them of what she called "absurd and erroneous charges" and "fabrications and vile at tacks." The upshot was that countries planning to criticize the document decided to keep silent, for fear of appearing to side with...
...fighting is hot, but the staging is horrific. One worries more about the actors than about friend or foe. Part of the blame rests with the set. A conundrum at best, it consists of three-tiered automatically movable towers of ill-assorted lum ber, through which the actors peek out like birds in wooden cages. During the battle scenes these towers rumble about the stage firing off errant fusillades, al most running down the soldiers as if they were pedestrians...