Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Weinberger called it "the worst spy case of the century." As Secretary of Defense in the spring of 1987, he was confronted with evidence that Marine guards at the U.S. embassy in Moscow had not only "fraternized" with Soviet women but also allowed KGB agents to break into the inner sanctum of the embassy -- the code room, from which sensitive messages are sent to Washington...
...many kinds of walking did Toad savor. Beach walking took him along the edge of eternity. Night walking carried him through another mysterious fluid, darkness. Walking populated his solitude with multitudes of fancies and inner images, and let his mind roam up and down in time. Yet walking in the city also gave him sometimes an ecstatic solitude -- a paradoxical apartness and serenity...
...Black underclass, a group that has been deprived of hope and told to believe that it cannot succeed, no matter how hard it tries, Fallows urges the implementation of conservative solutions like workfare and education vouchers. As for those inner-city schools that repeatedly fail to install confidence or discipline in students, Fallows seems to put out a call for Joe Clark, the New Jersey principal who is known for walking around while carrying a baseball bat and a bullhorn...
...telltale seismic-wave patterns also suggest that while the sun's outer layer rotates faster at the equator than at the poles, the inner region rotates uniformly. This creates a shear force, like the blades of scissors sliding past each other, that Harvey suspects distorts the magnetic field, giving rise to the solar cycle...
...precocious, and her career has been long. Among women artists associated with abstract expressionism, she stands second only to the late Lee Krasner. You could never claim that she has Krasner's emotional range as a painter: pessimism, anger, every abrasive emotion are caught in some inner filter before they can reach Frankenthaler's canvases and muddy their obstinately sustained lyricism. She keeps up the mood of Apollonian pleasure so well that one may think of Edmund Wilson's satire The Omelet of A. MacLeish, whose hero's well-made tropes "gleamed in the void, and evoked approbation and wonder...