Word: friends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national anthem. Reagan and Kohl stood at attention on a raised blue platform before 7,500 spectators, many waving small U.S. and West German flags. Said Kohl: "This walk with the President over the graves of the soldiers was not an easy walk . . . I thank you personally as a friend that you undertook this walk with...
...Duke of Windsor, who was best man at his wedding. As a young man, Prince Philip, penniless but promising, married his adored young cousin Lilibet. His sister was the Queen of Sweden. Louis Mountbatten himself--and how he loved it all--was wealthy, flashingly handsome, a polo-playing friend of rajas and movie stars, a somewhat too fearless naval commander, an unsubtle, decent, enormously energetic man, grand if not great, whose immense, childish vanity was only just outweighed by his good sense and charm...
...sign of the industry's brainstorming is the burgeoning number of occasions for which greetings are available. Card buyers can now congratulate a friend on getting a driver's license, buying a new car or completing a successful diet. Customers can use cards to announce a divorce, propose a tryst or console a pal whose pet dog has died. Carrying that marketing strategy to an extreme, California Dreamers, a Chicago company, has put out an all-purpose Generic Greeting Card. The message: "Whatever...
...chamber, to another standing ovation, it was clear that some of the fury had dissipated. "Mr. Speaker," said Michel somewhat sheepishly to his old golfing buddy, "we weren't going to stay away forever." The members burst into laughter. Replied O'Neill: "I am delighted to see my old friend back. As Joe Louis said, 'He can run but he can't hide...
...better reality. In October 1984 Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas, 53, one of the bright hopes of the Democratic Party, learned that he had a mild form of cancer. At first, he decided to plow ahead with his re-election campaign. Then he thought better of it. As a friend told him, "Nobody on his deathbed ever said, 'I wish I had spent more time on my business.' " Tsongas gave up his political career to spend his time with his family. He vanished to the public in order to materialize for his family. He may have given a deeper reading...