Word: lightens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meese had no reason to doubt that Reagan was still with him. "I've never been one that wanted to throw the baby out of the sleigh to the wolves in order to lighten the load," Reagan told a group of newspaper reporters. While he had not examined Meese's finances, "I do know that he had to make some pretty great economic sacrifices to come here and work for the Government." Reagan said that Meese would remain as his Counsellor until he was confirmed as Attorney General. After completing his required preliminary probe, Smith was expected...
...already hard enough to find a place to eat in Lowell House that they can't afford to break chairs at each performance, but even so the actors handled the mishap with ease. A successful ad lib can lighten a play but a bad one can murder it, and there is already plenty of murder in Ira Levin's comic thriller. So the actors stayed cool, and the tightly constructed, well paced production didn't founder...
...comes as a surprise letdown instead of a definitive period. In between, by way of atonement, Cutler has admirably showcased a parade of comedy bits, from the infamous live lamb to Keith Rogal's slimy portrayal of Corporate Evil as the interloping lawyer. Still, no amount of carbonation can lighten this load; Curse would weigh down the blithest spirit with distaste for these starving and unstarving misfits, compassion for their situation, and deep-rooted discomfort at their closeness to a twisted but familiar reality. And that, after all, is the point...
...however, as a result of a new political strategy, Castro announced that he would lighten some prison sentences. I was taken to a civilian hospital, where I began to receive appropriate treatment. However, the publication of Castro's Prisoner in France resulted in the suspension of this treatment. I was sent back to prison, this time to Combinado del Este, where I remained until my release. In April 1981, the military transferred me to las celdas de castigo (punishment cells), which, at the time, housed 67 people who had been sentenced to death either for political reasons...
...took his first plunge into politics and became Reagan's campaign chairman for Ventura County. Reagan was equally taken with the amiable Clark and made him chief of his Sacramento staff early in his first term. Clark's staff included Edwin Meese III and Michael Deaver. To lighten the paper flow into the Governor's office, Clark developed the famous "mini-memo" system of single-page briefings, which is still in use at the White House. When aides groused that many ideas were too complex to be boiled down to a one-page memo, Clark replied...