Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sent a military delegation to Cuba to inform Fidel about our proposals and get his consent. Castro gave his approval. We wanted to do the whole thing in secret. Our security organs assured us this was possible even though American planes overflew Cuban territory all the time. Supposedly, the palm trees would keep our missiles from being seen from the air. We installed the missiles aboveground because silos would have required too much time to build and we believed there was not much time before the Americans invaded. It was our intention after installing the missiles to announce their presence...
...decision to fire Dugan. National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft tried to defuse Dugan's comments by noting that "the general is not in the chain of command," but Iraq did not seem to need mollifying. The general's statement, announced Radio Baghdad, "will neither shake the leaves of Iraqi palm trees nor waken a sleeping girl...
Most remarkable of all is the case of the President himself, F.W. de Klerk, who on the morning of my visit to the Security Police was shown on national television greeting blacks in Soweto with the black-solidarity handshake -- palm enclosing palm, thumb and then palm again -- and being applauded by black bystanders of all ages...
After two decades in the shade of the local 7-Eleven, lo and behold, milkmen are making their rounds again. Customers ranging from affluent suburbanites to working mothers are paying up to $1.99 per half-gallon for milk delivered to their doorsteps. Since the Palm Beach Milk Co. opened in May with 200 customers, it has added 800 people to its routes, and it expects to tack on | 500 more this fall. Welsh Farms in Long Valley, N.J., estimates that about 25% of its business now comes from home delivery...
Carolyn Pitts runs her palm over the hand-tooled sandstone exterior of an old textile mill. "The stonework is marvelous," she says. "It was obviously ! meant to be a real showpiece." Built in 1849 in Cannelton, Ind., alongside the Ohio River, the brooding, fortress-like structure with twin turrets and heavily bracketed cornice was abandoned in the 1950s. Now the roof is a wreck, and starlings nest inside...