Word: kept
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...side of the smoking debate? He went through hell to quit the habit, and he used to get into fights with his first wife about her chain-smoking. He even lost his own brother to emphysema--so why play Mr. Tobacco on Today? As the minutes passed and Couric kept at him, he became angrier, knocking the "liberal elite that always buys the Democratic line," accusing Couric of "maybe violating the FEC regulations by always sticking up for the Democrats." Elizabeth Dole swallowed hard. She knew her husband had just invited the entire press corps to tour the dark side...
...communists had done for Russia and no one liked the President--but they liked the possibility of riots and class warfare even less." "'Stick with Yeltsin and at least you'll have calm'--that was the line we wanted to convey," says Dresner. "So the drumbeat about unrest kept pounding right till the end of the run-off round, when the final TV spots were all about the Soviets' repressive rule...
...Unlike his predecessor, he still speaks of Arafat as a terrorist and shows visible repugnance at the prospect of meeting him." Netanyahu also insisted that peace negotiations cannot proceed as long as terrorist attacks continue, saying that one of the pillars of peace is reciprocity. "But the Palestinians have kept their side of that bargain," says Silver. "Even Netanyahu has to admit that the Palestinians has been cooperating very effectively with Israel on security matters." For a Congress that has passed legislation mandating that the U.S. move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the highlight of the speech came...
...just glad I'm being kept so well-informed," Friedberg said...
...house whose primary resident supposedly knows every secret of a secretive government--the hot dish about alien sightings, alien abductees, alien autopsies--except that, as viewers of TV shows like The X-Files are taught, the President doesn't know the half of it, because the information is kept from him by conspiratorial feds who may be, God help us, aliens themselves...