Word: omar
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...book are an unsavory lot, greedy and loutish. One, however, had a taste for Flaubert and Wittgenstein, another the skill and nerve to become a professional racing-car driver, and a third possessed a spontaneously poetic soul. He greeted the dawn after the successful holdup with lines from Omar Khayyám: "Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night/ Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight...
...treaty was to pass, it had to include some new reservation that could appease both factions. Tougher yet, it must also satisfy Panama's unpredictable chief of state, Omar Torrijos. The General telephoned his ambassador in Washington, Gabriel Lewis, and told him: "Gabriel, we are in the ninth inning. There are two outs and two strikes. See what...
...President, who needed all the votes he could get, gave in. With White House support, the reservation was approved by the Senate. On the face of it, the reservation did not seem to change significantly the original treaty and subsequent "understanding" between Carter and Panamanian Chief of Government Omar Torrijos that provided for the American defense of the canal if it was endangered. But by gratuitously spelling out the right of the U.S. to reintroduce troops into Panama for virtually any reason, DeConcini grievously offended Panamanian national pride. It was the issue of sovereignty that had prompted negotiations...
...Barbara Streisand's overripe features mugging and straining as young Fanny auditions for her first show. Hilarious The other is of a successful and (with the help of posture lessons) statuesque Fanny, breaking down in tears during a concert because her marriage with her first husband (Omar Sharif) is kaput. Maudlin. The first image urges me to recommend it, the second signals me to say, avoid it like the plague. So go, invite a friend, and cuddle during the second half...
With high drama, the Senate shut its ;all wooden doors for a secret debate on the latest hurdle facing the Panama Canal treaties: charges linking Moisés Torrijos, the brother of Panama's strongman, General Omar Torrijos, to heroin smuggling in the U.S. Called at the insistence of Kansas Republican Robert Dole and other treaty opponents, the two-day session attracted as many as 70 Senators, practically a mob in Capitol Hill terms. But when the doors reopened at midweek, after 14 hours of testimony and discussion, the great drug drama turned out to be something of a bust...