Word: patly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...example, Washington has not yet decided what changes, if any, to make in the framework for a start treaty that was all but agreed to by Gorbachev's and Ronald Reagan's negotiators. But the Administration's central theme is reasonably clear. In essence, George Bush proposes to stand pat and wait for Gorbachev to make the next move -- and probably the one after that and the one after that -- toward reducing tensions. As one senior American official puts it, the idea is to "let Gorbachev keep coming to us, making concessions, playing to our agenda...
Like Betty Wright, most Washington wives are invisible until their principal gets in trouble. Pat Nixon held the title for most stoic wife until Maureen Dean gave an Oscar-winning performance during her husband's Watergate testimony, sitting primly behind him, blond hair pulled back, holding the Nancy Reagan gaze before there was a Nancy Reagan gaze. Former Attorney General John Mitchell's wife Martha took to telephoning reporters and was forcibly sedated. Rita Jenrette, whose husband John was convicted for taking bribes in Abscam, used her 15 minutes of celebrity to pose in Playboy, reveal that she and John...
...earlier somewhere in Brazil, and that, by analogy, there are no hidden imams because it's all too complicated to figure out. They listen for reliable word of when the market's going to turn (this is what people really want from newsletters, says an editor, the chance to pat a neighbor on the back and say, "I got out, you poor slob"). They listen for the sound of butterfly wings flapping...
Central Connecticut won the 36-hole match with 617 strokes and thus qualified for the NCAA tournament. Hartford, stroking 632, and Yale, with 646 strokes, finished second and third respectively. Stroking 153, Hartford's Pat Sheehan was the tournament's medalist...
With that statement, Wright raised the stakes of this in-House scandal for the Democrats assembled around him. It is said that Dwight Eisenhower snapped a pencil in half when his embattled vice-presidential nominee, the younger Richard Nixon, came to the part of his Checkers speech about Pat and the cloth coat. Eisenhower knew then that Nixon was not going to go away but would fight to the death to hold on to his nomination. No one heard any No. 2 lead pencils breaking when Wright said, "There are some things worth fighting for." But it is far from...