Word: liner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Choi, a collector of ocean liner memorabilia, said that he was really pleased to have won an honorable mention, but that he thinks he did not win the prize because his collection was too unique...
...best thing about L.P.'s is the packaging. They're the size that a piece of music is meant to be. You can hold an album's cover and read the liner notes and lyrics and grasp the full meaning--the full cosmic earth-shaking force that rock 'n roll at its best can be. I know they put all the same information in C.D.'s and cassettes these days, but it's always in the form of some fold-out thingamagig like the pamphlets they hand out on street corners about safe sex or finding Jesus or joining...
...view of the adventures of Noah and his ark. (Noah, it turns out, was not a particularly nice fellow, and his epic voyage was less than heroic in its details.) Matters then proceed through a number of other diverting incidents, among them the hijacking of a Mediterranean cruise liner by Arab terrorists, Jonah's sojourn in the belly of the whale, the historic wreck of a French ship and the religious experiences of an American astronaut. The localized pleasures in each chapter -- Barnes is both erudite and witty -- are somewhat diminished by the suspicion that the end design will amount...
Honecker's replacement, 52-year-old Egon Krenz, has a reputation as a hard-liner opposed to the growing pro-democracy movement. The state-run news agency ADN said Krenz will take over as Communist Party chief, head of state and head of the military, replacing his mentor in all three roles...
...only the Soviets but many American foreign policy specialists and Congressmen as well. They fear the Administration is passing up a historic opportunity to move beyond the superpower confrontation and risking the danger that if Gorbachev is not helped, he will fall and be replaced by a hard-liner. Senate majority leader George Mitchell charged last week that Bush and company seem "almost nostalgic about the cold war." To many, the Bush team seems stubbornly reluctant to move beyond what the President calls a "show me" attitude...