Word: occasionally
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In addition, Jarvis has undermined his own cause with wild outbursts of name-calling. He has accused his opponents of "monumental lies" and called the county of San Luis Obispo, where there is strong opposition to the initiative, "the dumbest, crookedest bunch." On one occasion he shouted at a woman...
"Sort of a diplomatic minuet" was Edmund Muskie's prediction about his first encounter as Secretary of State with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. But by the time the two finally met last week, the drum beats and trumpet calls from the capitals of the world had turned into...
Asked about foreign policy differences among officials in his Administration, Carter first denied that there were any, then took the occasion to rap his National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski, said Carter, "is kind of feisty. He's aggressive. He's innovative. He puts forth bright ideas, some...
None of the arguments was very convincing. Other world leaders used the occasion to make useful contacts with their peers; Britain's Margaret Thatcher, who also faces severe domestic problems on the economic front, found the time to spend 24 hours in Belgrade; Yugoslavia's new leaders would...
It was a happy party at Manhattan's Four Seasons restaurant, an occasion for champagne and congratulatory speeches. The top brass of CBS, led by Founder and Chairman William Paley, 79, had gathered to cheer the TV net work's narrow victory over rival ABC and its return...