Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...face, Brown, 47, hardly looks like an agent of historic change. He has an outsize mustache, a quick wit and an ability to energize any room he enters, traits that conjure up comparisons with Jackson. But his hands are those of a polished Washington lobbyist: when he speaks, his left hand rests casually in his pocket while his right hand ticks off the logical points he wants to make; when he listens, his palms press together as he taps his fingers thoughtfully. At a lectern, he talks rather than preaches. On a couch, his relaxed body language and bemused self...
...done hundreds of times before, Reagan walked along the Rose Garden, savoring the crisp morning air and glancing at gardener Irvin Williams' meticulous winter designs. But this time Reagan slowed, turned right and left to wave one more time. Halfway down the colonnade, he suddenly faced away, picked up his gait and, never looking back, went to meet the Bushes and take them to the Capitol to yield the presidency to his personally chosen successor...
...last hours of the Reagans were crammed with thunderous tributes and then dozens of tiny, human gestures of thanks. The Notre Dame football team, voted the national champion, came by and left Reagan the blue-and-gold letter sweater of George Gipp. Suddenly make-believe was real; the latter-day Gipper finally had the authentic article, and he clung to it reverently as the team departed. The apt gift touched him almost as much as anything that happened in the parting...
...several mornings before he left, Reagan brought his friendly squirrels a double ration of acorns. He spread them out on the veranda beyond his window and watched the scramble. His staff found a squirrel-size sign that read BEWARE OF DOGS and placed it along the squirrel path. When President-elect Bush came around for his final minutes with his old mentor and boss, Reagan pointed out the sign, mindful that the Bushes will move in with a pregnant English springer spaniel named Millie and before long the grounds will swarm with puppies. "I'll keep the sign right there...
...STDs cannot be dismissed as a controllable collection of "social diseases." The open genital sores that many STDs cause can be gateways for the AIDS virus. If left untreated, STDs can cause severe consequences, including heart damage and birth defects. Some 7,000 STD-related deaths occur each year in the U.S., many of them in infants born to infected mothers...