Word: hearded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the President heard that, said one aide, "he clenched his teeth so tight that his jaw turned white." The reaction went far beyond personal pique: Carter and his aides took the speech as a sign that the Ayatullah had misread U.S. restraint as an indication that the nation was afraid to take any action. They agreed that he must be disabused of that notion. The President, who was spending Thanksgiving week at Camp David, returned immediately to the White House by helicopter for a late-afternoon meeting with the Special Coordination Committee, which has been meeting twice...
...heard new sounds. "They're on the roof," somebody yelled. Dixie 17, the American school, told us there were three truckloads of Pakistani troops on a side road "waiting to move." An embassy officer grabbed the mike. "This is the third floor of the American embassy," he yelled. "You have our permission to move those troops...
When students heard last spring that the visiting committee to Afro-American Studies might recommend demoting Afro-Am to an interdisciplinary committee, they demonstrated to show their support for the department. The protests subsided, but this week the unexpected release of the committee's report revived an old debate. The committee did recommend that Afro-am become a commitee in light of the problems they said have plagued the department since its establishment ten years...
...redemptive quality of rock and roll. Mick and Keith brought the world rock and roll, and if the Stones ruined the lives of people like Sanchez, they saved the youth of millions of kids, kids doing homework to the time of a Spiro Agnew watch till they heard "Brown Sugar...
...Boeing was not in the trolley car business originally, so it's not surprising that their first try wasn't that good. I heard the doors in those cars have 4000 moving parts; you have to figure something will go wrong," he said...