Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beaten by mere undergraduates, several alumni performers provided exceedingly memorable performances. Cornerpocket's scat chorus renditions of Count Basie's "Corner Pocket" and "Everybody's Bopping" were witty and technically excellent. It's no mean feat to interpolate into a single passage scat syllables and lines from both "I Got Rhythm" and the theme from The Flintstones--all while keeping a straight face...
What steamed the Senator was statements in the press release contending that Dole is "mean-spirited" and practices "cronyism," a reference to recent accusations that he might have improperly helped a former aide obtain a federal contract. The Bush campaign handout also attempted to undercut the Senator's down-home image by portraying Dole and his wife Elizabeth as "millionaires," and by repeating past suggestions that a blind trust for Mrs. Dole might have been mismanaged...
Efforts to ban the same banner from the statehouses of South Carolina, Mississippi and Georgia have also failed. But the fight goes on. Says Earl Shinhoster, regional director of the N.A.A.C.P.: "The increased waving of that flag, of singing Dixie and the rise in racial hate groups mean it is time to take a concerted effort to remove these symbols...
...twilight of his presidency, Reagan has reason to fear that one of his most cherished foreign initiatives is slipping away. The House's 219-to-211 vote against granting an additional $36 million in aid to the contras does not mean the immediate end for the rebels. But with military supplies dwindling fast, the contras cannot hold out much longer. Says General Fred Woerner, commander in chief of the U.S. Southern Command in Panama: "We're talking in terms of a few months...
...both sides of the Berlin Wall, including the marriage proposals of "U.S. boys," from locations, Witt says, "you'd never think cared about figure skating." Considering her appearance, this is a possibility. "If she were an American," the U.S.'s Fleming once said, "her face would be everywhere. I mean, look...