Word: patly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weapons shipments to Argentina could destabilize the southern portion of Latin America, where Argentina is embroiled in a longstanding territorial dispute with Chile, another country under a U.S. arms embargo. Argentina hopes the U.S. will pressure Britain to negotiate the question of Falklands sovereignty. But the U.S. is standing pat, unwilling to ask Margaret Thatcher to make a politically difficult concession...
...almost never did he choose to call attention to his own remarkable detective work. So if White errs a bit in refusing to acknowledge his own edging towards the political Right in America in Search of Itself, his modesty in declining to give himself a going-away journalistic pat on the back more than makes up for it. White's final election chronicle proves that, no matter what his politics, America's premier author of political romance is retiring at the top of his game...
...currently lacking in originality or imagination. "We have made 73 years of progress using methods that are tried and true," insists Executive Director Benjamin Hooks, 56. "They are still good. We are not going to abandon them." Nonetheless, there is growing evidence that the organization's stand-pat approach is appealing less and less to the young, educated, middle-class blacks who should be providing it with new leadership...
...Simmons, 53, has the role of her mother Fee, and Barbara Stanwyck, 74, is cast as her Aunt Mary Carson. Only one major part, that of Meggie's husband Luke, is being played by an Australian, Bryan Brown (Breaker Morant). Brown may have his Down Under accent down pat, but the rest will have to fake it. Rachel, who was raised on an Oxfordshire farm, hopes a mid-Atlantic cadence will carry her through. Besides, says she, "Americans can't tell the difference between Australian and English accents anyway." Cheeky lass...
...edited the intransigently radical Catholic Worker. She suffered prison zestfully for her conscience, as suffragist and pacifist. At 15 she demonstrated with the farm workers of Cesar Chavez and went to jail for one last time. The old lady's picture in the papers made almost too pat a portrait of a martyr...