Word: nosedives
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HONDURAS. The poverty-stricken Miskito Indians who eke out an existence in the northeastern Honduras department of Gracias a Dios had never seen anything like it. As U.S. Air Force C-141 transports and giant C5-A Galaxies roared overhead, Honduran special-forces parachutes bloomed in the skies above that...
The crowds were beginning to gather at the Executive Inn Rivermont, near Owensboro, Ky. Dolly Parton, 37, had come to town. About an hour before showtime, a woman phoned Owensboro police to warn of possible danger from a man who "wants to harm her, a person who can't...
Writers, artists and beauties flit through Quennell's pages like guests at one of Lady Ottoline Morrell's parties. Here is George Orwell, with his face of "haggard nobility"; Novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett, "clever, sharp-nosed, sharp-chinned, close-lipped"; and Rose Macaulay, telling a friend at the...
Heckler, a scrappy, hard-nosed politician, will be the second woman to join the Cabinet, after Elizabeth Dole, who begins her job as Transportation Secretary next month. Heckler's past criticisms of the President's economic program and her support of the Equal Rights Amendment have led some...
The opening scene of Top Girls, by Caryl Churchill (author of the long-running off-Broadway hit Cloud Nine), is the strangest of dinner parties; the hostess is alive, but all the guests are dead. Marlene (Gwen Taylor) is a smart, hard-nosed career woman who is celebrating her promotion...