Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON -- President Reagan said last night that the controversial decision to sell arms to Iran was "mine and mine alone," and said two other American hostages in Lebanon would have been freed "if there had not been so much publicity" about the shipments...
...decision for the operation is mine and mine alone," he said at a session so consumed with the Iranian issue that his summit meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev didn't come up until its midpoint...
...just happened to see a '50s movie with Brigitte Bardot." He is similarly resourceful about tapping into an impulse before it becomes a trend, and fearless as well as funny in his ability to meld styles to his whim and will. "This new collection of mine is the Thousand and One Nights," he explains, adding, "I've mixed the 18th century and the Ottomans." A perfect formula, it turns out, for clothes to be worn with both a slink and a smile...
...really seemed too much of a coincidence. On Oct. 6, six South African soldiers were injured by a land mine near the spot where the borders of South Africa, Mozambique and Swaziland converge. General Magnus Malan, South Africa's Defense Minister, quickly issued a stern message to Mozambican President Samora Machel. "Terror feeds on itself," said Malan. "It eventually turns on its hosts." Just ten days after that menacing admonition, a plane carrying Machel, 53, strayed over the South African border near the site of the land-mine explosion and crashed, killing the President and 33 others...
...just rudely stormed out of his restaurant after hearing that the wait for a table was 15 minutes. To say the least, he displayed his displeasure at our nerve to return to his establishment after our alleged misbehavior. In fact, he put his face right up to mine and yelled at us, as if we were his kids who had just told their father to drop dead...