Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...language of the indictments says forcefully and clearly what the president, not to mention the vice president, should have said long ago about the covert doings, terming them "a program to continue funding of and logisitical and other support for military and paramilitary operations" at a time when the law prevented such action...
...mentioned George Bush in a game of word association for political insiders just six weeks ago, the responses would have been devastating: loser, wimp, preppie, lapdog. Mention the Vice President now, and the chorus would be loud and clear: Republican nominee for President...
...proud of my long experience in government." That was supposed to be a sign that he was inching toward the future rather than wallowing in the past. But the line disappeared from subsequent speeches. Instead, over and over, Bush hailed the Chief. Occasionally some restless adviser, not to mention platoons of outside critics, urged Bush to stake out territory...
...gentle into that good night. He will devote his final hours to finding out who slipped him slow-acting but irreversible poison. But Cornell is no longer an accountant. He is a blocked novelist, cynically teaching college lit. The new twist is that Cornell's death, not to mention several others, is motivated not by the usual lusts (money, sex, power) but by dark literary passions. How far we have come from 1949, when it was a boring old iridium shipment that set everyone's wheels spinning. How acute of D.O.A.'s creators to realize that in today's culturally...
...thing the Army's "Be All You Can Be" advertisements never mention: the real job is to kill. Being in the Army is a holiday--"See Europe and the Far East for free"--until you have to punch the clock and go to work. Today, soldiers' faces stare out at us from front pages and television screens. The whistle is blowing. The coffee break is over...