Word: lapelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vice President Bush had traveled to Moscow to affirm President Reagan's new commitment to improved superpower relations. He went into his private meeting with Chernenko wearing a tiny lapel pin from the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Trade and Economic Council that showed crossed American and Soviet flags. Bush described his 30-minute chat as "very tempered, very reasonable" and noted that he was returning home "with a certain sense of optimism." According to the Vice President, Chernenko seemed self-assured and responded without using notes. "Mr. Chernenko conducted the meeting without turning from right to left for assistance," said Bush...
...their country's tradition of rough-and-tumble politics, the election campaign was a strangely sedate affair. Candidates were not allowed to hurl accusations at each other or criticize the regime. Political wall posters and graffiti were banned, and party members could display their loyalties only with discreet lapel pins. Virtually all politicians who had held elected office prior to the 1980 coup, including former Prime Ministers Bülent Ecevit and Siileyman Demirel, were forbidden to run. More than 500 of the candidates for seats in parliament were stricken from the ballot without explanation...
...week when the troubled First National Bank of Midland was about to collapse under the burden of energy loans gone sour, the community staged a pep rally to stem a run on its deposits. About a thousand citizens gathered in Midland's Civic Center, many of them wearing lapel stickers that proclaimed I'M CONFIDENT. Oilman John Redfern Jr. told the crowd, "I hope you'll rake around, find some dough and put it in the bank tomorrow...
...independence as he decides to go to a match-making service to find companionship. Peter's terrible self-consciousness while preparing for his date is exquisite--his agony is almost palpable as he gets fitted for a new toupee and fumbles with a red carnation in his lapel...
...front of their applauding ancestors. One junior, who as the offspring of a '58er has been experiencing the ritual from the inside, reports that at the usually stony Freshman. Union the serves are suddenly calling him by his first name (reading it off the colour-coded tag on his lapel) and asking him how large a portion he wants...