Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...That line provoked the sharpest rejoinder of the day, from attorney Frank Susman, who argued on behalf of the Missouri abortion clinic that is challenging the antiabortion law: "It has always been my personal experience that when I pull a thread, my sleeve falls off . . . It is not a thread he is after. It is the full range of procreational rights and choices...
...daughter of a Jamestown, N.Y., electrician, Ball left home at 15 to study acting in New York City. Although she started as a model and chorus-line beauty, she never lost touch with the insecure, self-conscious adolescent inside her and seemed most at ease when playing a zany or a frump. Her great creation was the Lucy character, a Little Scamp who was forever conniving, forever failing, forever meriting punishment yet winning forgiveness. The thwarted schemer was a figure dating back to the Romans if not the Greeks, but Ball deftly sentimentalized the character, merged its cunning intellect with...
...this approach of taking what you can get from the Democrats in Congress," says a Bush adviser outside Government, "they're going to attract more fire from the conservatives." Instead, Bush will soon emphasize his toughness on two issues dear to the right: his veto strategy to "hold the line" on the minimum wage and his plan to build more prison cells. As a wry college coach once put it, the trick is to keep the alumni "sullen but not mutinous." A few outright partisan victories might help...
...workers streamed from their offices and factories into the spring sunshine to watch and cheer. Food vendors handed out free drinks and popsicles. Those who did not join in the march climbed atop buildings, billboards and subway entrances for a better view. At one intersection workers broke through a line of 200 police to clear a path for the procession...
...tensest moment came when the students burst through the last police line before Tiananmen Square, the symbolic seat of power and the scene two weeks ago of a violent confrontation between students and police. According to students, two were seriously injured and 300 briefly detained. As the activists proceeded down the Avenue of Eternal Peace toward the north side of the 100-acre square, they were met by truckloads of troops. But the soldiers made no move to stop the demonstrators, who swarmed around the trucks. After a few minutes, the vehicles and their bewildered passengers slowly drove away...