Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change in plans to concern in Washington about the latter's security. In other words, Marcos was claiming, the ongoing opposition demonstrations and the climate of violence they have entailed derailed the Reagan trip--not the repression that characterizes the regime itself. And Marcos had the hypocritical gall to mention in his letter the "traumatic experience" of Nancy Reagan after her husband was wounded two years ago in an assassination attempt. No doubt Mrs. Aquino appreciates the irony of that line...
...mention my having written two operas, i.e., the music. That is more important than my written criticism. I mean to say I have "set to music" a great deal of the best poetry of Villon and Cavalcanti with the intention of getting it out of books and to the consumer or recipient...
...moods of his fellow defendants were varied. Most were nervous, winced even at the mention of their names. Ex-Foreign Minister Ribbentrop looked broken and old, with a hurt, petulant look on his frozen face. Best show of austere indifference was given by former Chief of the Supreme High Command Wilhelm Keitel. Rudolf Hess, now officially pronounced an amnesia victim, was the most morose-looking of all, his green-tinged skin drawn tightly about his cadaverous skull. He tried to pass the time by reading Bavarian folk tales, but was much disturbed by stomach cramps, which made him rock back...
...will defend this city to the last!") marched 100,000 troops for "reorganization." At Peiping, Nationalists and Communists signed an agreement designed to "shorten the civil war, satisfy a public desire for peace and . . . prevent the vitality of the country from sinking any further." The agreement did not mention "surrender...
...televised resignation speech was a peculiar performance. In some ways, it sounded like a State of the Union address, a recitation of his achievements. He admitted no guilt, only casually did he mention mistakes made "in the best interests of the nation." If some expected a bitter, angry valedictory, Nixon was controlled and ultimately conciliatory. Nixon once said that the test of a people is the way it handles the transition of power, and last week-in his resignation speech if not in his mawkish, self-pitying White House goodbye-he deserved credit for helping to bring off the transition...