Word: occasionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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On May 10, 1981, youthful Frenchmen were careering jubilantly through the streets of Paris, trailing red flags from their cars and chanting, "We've won! We've won!" Standing in the chill spring rain at the Place de la Bastille, others laughingly shouted, "Mitterrand, give us some sun...
"You could name the trouble place and learn that Lowenstein had been there," recalls James A. Wechsler. He turned up in Saigon in 1967 to observe the country's allegedly "free" elections. He was in Chicago in 1968 speaking out against police brutality to protesters outside the Democratic National Convention...
To Ronald Reagan, the occasion was a "homecoming." To others, it looked like an exploratory mission on the 1984 presidential campaign trail. Either way, the President was clearly in his political element last week, as he escaped the legislative infighting of Washington for a two-day foray into the Sunbelt...
"This is a unique instance in the history of arms control," said Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill last week. Perhaps so, but the occasion was also a murky one. After more than 40 hours of amendment-filled debate spread over seven tedious weeks, the House finally voted...
...approach taken by their predecessors. But too often this energy was misdirected. The experience of hobnobbing with Harvard administrators makes it both easy and dangerous for students to distance themselves from their peers. Too many council members fell into this trap. The result was a worri-some haughtiness which occasionally caused the council members on student-faculty meetings to close meetings. Administrators similarly sometimes convinced representatives not to disclose topics and College statistics of high general interest which they had jointly discussed. On one occasion, a student committee actually exercised a constitutional clause allowing meetings to be closed under extraordinary...