Word: lone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trudeau's presence set the lone for the afternoon's program in which all three student speakers sprinkled their remarks with references to the characters of his Doonesbury strip. Like Trudeau the student speakers also referred to the supposed apathy among today's youth toward everything but personal fulfillment...
...President's San Antonio visit was his second to Texas in seven days. White House aides explained Reagan's continuing interest in the Lone Star State by calling it one of the "big three," meaning that Texas, along with California and Florida, are the three Sunbelt states that Reagan must carry to win in 1984. Hispanic voters are a crucial bloc in all three states; thus Reagan was happy to be in San Antonio to help commemorate Mexico's 1862 defeat of occupying French forces...
...observations of local landscape, weather, architecture and gastronomical specialties (in this case, Roquefort) are as keen and winning as her insights into her characters. Most engaging is the 100-year-old Pépé, who after meals recites obscure La Fontaine fables and sings joyously while his lone tooth shines "unashamedly in his strong ancient face...
...that it raise tariffs or slow the pace of imports, it last month increased, from 4.4% to 49.4%, the duty on large Japanese motorcycles, which have captured 85% of the U.S. market. That action came after a plea for help from the Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson Motor Co., the lone survivor of 143 companies that once made motorcycles in the U.S. The Administration will soon face a new test of its free-trade philosophy. Last week the International Trade Commission unanimously recommended that the U.S. set quotas limiting the import of some steel products for three years...
...Doyle came through with the best performance, a one-hitter in the second game at Ithaca. No Cornell runner made it to second base, and the first Big Red hit didn't come until Doyle was one out away from the first Harvard no-hitter in two years. The lone single was one of just three Big Red balls that made it into the outfield, as Doyle put on a display of control pitching that left Cornell batters gaping at knee-high strikes...