Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pentagon officials who asked not to be named stressed that the helicopter was not engaged in any mine-sweeping operations in the area and had not come under any type of attack...
...upon him. None of the rest of us can imagine surviving the demands of such a career; Shawn flourishes." So wrote Brendan Gill a decade ago of longtime New Yorker Editor William Shawn, whose endless capacity for work and relentless curiosity helped fashion that magazine into a weekly mine of essay, fiction and humor. But last spring, after serving 35 years as editor, Shawn, 79, was ousted by the magazine's new owner, S.I. Newhouse of Conde Nast. Many thought Shawn's career was over. Not so. At the invitation of President Roger Straus Jr., Shawn is moving to Farrar...
...memo, he had walked right past them with other papers and fed them into his office shredder, which they could hear grinding away. Didn't anyone, asked Liman, say, "Stop . . . What are you doing?" Replied North with a grin: "They were working on their projects. I was working on mine." (The Justice Department later denied North's account...
...future of U.S. bases in Panama. This is the central issue of the problem, but the answer is not mine to give. This decision belongs exclusively to the Panamanian people...
...offered five or six times his current salary (reportedly $160,000 a year) to bring Apostrophes to one of France's new privately owned television networks, but he decided to stay with Antenne 2. However, he says, "I would be perfectly happy to see other shows like mine." It is not a likely prospect. "We had thought of starting a literary show," says Herve Bourges, former head of TF1. "We never did. We didn't think we would ever be able to do a better job than Pivot...