Word: neil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...failing because we want to settle, and the other side wants to win." In seeking to influence events from a position of both military safety and military strength in Lebanon, the Reagan Administration seemed to have achieved the worst of both worlds. -By George Russell. Reported by Neil MacNeil and Johanna McGeary/ Washington, with other bureaus
...looks so much smaller," Reagan said as he wandered through the rooms. When he studied the side yard where he, his brother Neil, and the O'Malley boys, Edward and George, used to play, he said to Neil: "They even shrank our football field." The President took a handful of popcorn from a bowl on the sitting-room table, just where his mother Nelle always had it popped and waiting. "No salt," he muttered. "Good," said Nancy, who tends the diet...
...Prime Minister may have wished that she were receiving so warm a reaction back home. There, despite a comfortable 144-vote majority in Parliament, Thatcher has encountered an unaccountably bumpy stretch. Her Labor foes in the House of Commons have sharpened their claws under their new leader, Neil Kinnock, and Thatcher's Tory backbenchers have risen up in mini-rebellions. The government's recent decision to ban union members from employment at the super-secret Government Communications Headquarters in Cheltenham, because of the fear of work stoppages that could affect security, was vigorously attacked. Not only Labor...
February 14, 1983. This time not so many people are on hand to watch O'Neil. B.C., no longer the bad guy pitted against a Northeastern Cinderella team, is blowing the Huskies out of the building. The Garden is already emptying out, only the quarter of the first balcony where the Eagle fans are sitting is still filled. Len Ceglarski's skaters have already pumped seven pucks past a shell-shocked Northeastern sieve, three in the last five minutes. Now the Eagles are pressuring again; O'Neil breaks for the net, takes the perfect centering pass and knocks it home...
...would seem as different as Piccadilly and Park Avenue. Coward's family took in boarders and lived in London on the edge of genteel poverty. The stage became young Noël's Oxford and Cambridge; he was a professional actor at twelve and England's Neil Simon at 25, when four of his plays ran simultaneously in the West End. Porter was born wealthy and attended Yale and Harvard. His first Broadway show lasted two weeks. "You would be well advised," wrote one critic, "in considering the latest musical offerings, to see See America First last...