Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best known of the golpistas (coup makers) is Guardia Civil Lieut. Colonel Antonio Tejero Molina, 50, who, with his drooping mustache and patent-leather hat, became an instant celebrity last year as he waved his pistol while holding hos tage nearly all of the Cortes' 350 mem bers. Also on trial are Major General Al fonso Armada Comyn, 61, King Juan Carlos' longtime military tutor; Lieut. General Jaime Milans del Bosch, 66, who declared martial law in Valencia on the night of the coup; and Major General Luis Torres Rojas, 62, who is accused of trying to enlist...
...when are you planning to have a baby?' " Chicago's Bonnie Bell had a ready answer for that one: "I just did." Bell, 36, gave birth to her first child last June. She confirms that "pregnancy and childbirth in our age group provide an instant camaraderie with other women." The cover story was written by Associate Editor J. D. Reed, assisted by Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison...
...drawn in the dirt. Those who are serious about reducing the deficit will cross it and work with us on our proposal or their alternatives. Those who are not sincere . . . will stay on the other side and simply continue their theatrics." He assailed "the knee-jerk reactions and the instant analyses" for being "as hasty as they were incorrect." Contended the President: "We must hold firm to our tax cuts and reduce the budget even more . . . We are at last and at least approaching the bend in the tunnel." Although Republicans control both legislative chambers in Iowa, those lines drew...
...Nixon prowled in his dawn foray to the camp of the peace marchers. The monument will be just seven blocks from the White House, where John Kennedy guided the first hesitant step into Viet Nam and Lyndon Johnson watched the tense nights away, bound to battlefields and carriers by instant electronic data on boys like Jan Scruggs, whom he never knew but loved...
...shabby cupids of Cannery Row knew anything about old movies, they'd know that two people who take such an instant dislike to each other are bound to end up together. They might have spared themselves much trouble that is not as funny and dear as David Ward, working from two John Steinbeck novels (the other is Sweet Thursday), thinks it is. Debra Winger is a tart tart and, as in Urban Cowboy, the best thing in a bad movie. But Ward, who wrote The Sting, seems to think that what they canned on Cannery Row was not fish...