Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...area. All military shipments to the rebels would halt during that period, but supplies of clothes, food and other nonlethal aid could be delivered by neutral international agencies. Under the proposal, any contras who lay down their arms will be granted amnesty and "may join in the political life of the nation with full enjoyment of their rights...
Berryman was next. After heated sonnets on the subject of suicide, the 57- year-old leaped off a bridge: "In a modesty of death I join my father" said one of his late poems. Lowell once noted that he and his friends "go at it with such single-minded intensity that we are always on the point of drowning." Now the survivor lost the will to compete. When he suffered his last heart attack at 60, his third wife called it a "suicide wish." In "Middle Age," he had written, "I forgive/ those I/ have injured...
...then there is AIDS. Goldsmith repeatedly brings it up in conversations. He believes it threatens to kill most of the human race -- "it could be up to 98% of mankind." This champion of individual enterprise urges that the U.S. join with the despised Soviets and "pool their resources in a massive research effort to find a way to prevent the spread of AIDS." "The thing about Jimmy," says Olivier Todd, whom Goldsmith fired as editor of L'Express for favoring the Socialists in the 1981 election, "is that he's an English eccentric in the best sense of the term...
...submit to Mr. Snotbottom and to your readers that the Daily News of Yale College is staffed by nude young men and women who will one day join the ranks of the wealthy and powerful, and (by extension) of my friends. I can see no reason why they should be forced to hide the light of their essentials, or rather the essential light of their well-deserved physical and intellectual privilege, under a bushel, under a shroud of mediocre, Big Government-imposed apparel...
...back in March, Carlucci had to pull out all the stops just to get Powell to join the NSC as his deputy. In late 1986 Powell had taken command of the Army V Corps in Frankfurt, West Germany, after some five years in the Pentagon as an aide to Carlucci and then Weinberger. He was reluctant to quit his post after only six months. But Carlucci was determined to get his friend back to Washington. When President Reagan, at Carlucci's urging, personally phoned Powell to offer him the NSC job, the general had little choice but to obey...