Word: kindest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy to take pot shots at the show, but it is hard to sit through it. The kindest thing that can be said is that the play could have been good--and that some of the playwright's funny lines did not get lost...
...Reagan Administration, April has been the kindest month on the Iranscam calendar. A long, brutal winter of damaging leaks and accusations culminated in the release of the Tower commission report, the cathartic firing of Chief of Staff Donald Regan and his replacement by Howard Baker, followed by the President's address and press conference on the scandal in March. The advent of spring has provided a welcome time-out for Reagan and his new advisers...
...boma just after dusk. The visitor held the flashlight. Young Olentwala did the killing. He threw the goat on its side and seized it by the muzzle with his right hand and placed his knee against the goat's throat and thus strangled it. Joseph said this was the kindest way, but the American doubted it. It was done, anyway, rather tenderly. Joseph and Olentwala chatted easily in Ol' Maa as the goat spasmed and spasmed and spasmed, and at last expired...
...kindest phrase for the ratings is "quite a bit off projections." But there is another week, and, in gold medals at least, the U.S.S.R. (43) and the U.S. (31) are in moderate range of each other. "I've always been an optimist," the American Georgian said, and proved it again while coming away from a visit to the Lenin Mausoleum. "A little pale," he exulted, "but looks great." Furthermore, Seattle has been selected to host the second quadrennial festival in 1990. In the meantime, Turner will busy himself with documentaries on both the Soviet Union and disarmament...
...hunger. "We were poor when I was young, but the difference then was the Government didn't come around telling you you were poor," he says, harking back to the tradition of community help from sources other than the Government. "My mother, God rest her soul, was the kindest, God-loving person I have ever known. She was always finding some family or someone that needed help and that we could help, and yet we were poor . . . I think back on all the places along the line where somebody stepped out of line and helped--and it's always been...