Word: nosedive
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I broke into Persian: "Believe me, it is in your interest for me not to come back." I suddenly remembered the snub-nosed Smith & Wesson that I had strapped on my back and a grenade I carried in my coat pocket. I was determined not to be captured alive. The...
So Fort Apache, The Bronx must be gratefully received, because it provides Newman with his first opportunity in years for a full-scale star turn. "Fort Apache" is the headquarters of New York City's 41st precinct, which encompasses the toughest black and Puerto Rican neighborhoods of the South...
The author writes in his book that the leadership of the New Right first congealed in 1974 when President Ford nominated closet liberal Nelson Rockefeller for vice president. Viguerie and his fellow conservatives were disgusted that other Republicans "had no stomach for a hard-nosed fight" and had decided passively...
Walesa proved equally adept at hard-nosed political bargaining. After eight days of tense face-to-face negotiations with Polish Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, he won a historic agreement that made Poland the only Communist country to have independent trade unions. It was a daring deviation from Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy...
The lights go down, the band strikes up, and the pudgy, red-nosed man in striped overalls trots onstage dragging a battered suitcase. France's favorite comedian Michel Colucci-known better as Coluche-is opening his nightly act at Paris' Théâtre du Gymnase. "Hey," Coluche...