Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After appearing on ABC's Nightline last week, ousted PTL Leader Jim Bakker invited TIME Correspondent Jon D. Hull into his Palm Springs home. Hull's report...
When the protesters marched down palm-lined Jen-Ai Road toward the Presidential Office Building, they discovered that rows of riot police had sealed the routes with barbed-wire barricades and water cannon. White-helmeted marshals among the marchers moved quickly to keep order. The demonstrators settled for more speeches and sang the opposition's rallying song, United for Taiwan. The police stayed back but blasted martial music from their own sound trucks to drown out the protesters...
...Administration's secret foreign policy, is huddling with his lawyers before facing inquisitors. A Washington lobbyist who once breakfasted regularly in the White House mess is brooding over his investigation by an independent counsel. In Quantico, Va., the Marines are preparing to court-martial one of their own. In Palm Springs, Calif., a husband-and-wife televangelist team, once the adored cynosures of 500,000 faithful, are beginning another day of seclusion...
...bloodless coup d'etat and kidnaping last week stunned a country that, from its first sighting by European explorers in 1643, seemed to be stirred only by the tide washing over coral reefs into palm-fringed lagoons. It was the first military takeover ever in the South Pacific. Fiji's democratic neighbors, including Australia and New Zealand, unanimously condemned Rabuka's actions. Even more disturbing was the coup's racist factor. Rabuka and his colleagues were expressing the resentment of ethnic Fijians against the recent political inroads of ethnic Indians. Bavadra's government, elected just last month, was the first...
Despite once boasting these star performers, the USBL remains a relatively modest undertaking. Five of the eight franchises are in the Northeast--Philadelphia, Staten Island, Long Island, New Jersey and Rhode Island--and the other three, for some reason, are in Florida (Miami, West Palm Beach and Tampa...