Word: patronizingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Democrats are particularly sensitive to North's complaint that Congress has been a fickle patron of the rebels. One compromise may be to approve continued economic aid for Central American democracies but with a lower amount of military aid than the President requests. Another would be to approve "phase- out" funds to pay for contra resettlement. "Nobody's talking about no money," said Democratic Congressman David Obey of Wisconsin, another opponent. "It is going to be difficult to shut off the contras...
...With 7,500 Syrian troops in West Beirut and an additional 25,000 in north and east Lebanon, Assad has been embarrassed by Glass's kidnaping. Assad's dilemma: fighting the Beirut terrorists would, in effect, mean confronting their chief patron, Iran, which Damascus supports in its protracted war with Iraq. According to Israeli sources, when Syrian Army General Ghazi Kenaan led his troops into Beirut in February, he wanted to curb the power of Hizballah, the pro-Iranian Shi'ite group based in the Lebanese capital that is believed to hold most of the 24 foreign hostages, including nine...
...Board to tell them what they can taste between their own two lips, still it is gratifying, like an endorsement from the Queen of England. On the wall over the cash register, Sinatra's picture hangs next to the Pope's and St. Gerard's, a local patron...
...with a bang that would seem to preclude much in the way of a continuation. Edmund Talbot, a smug, upper-class young man sailing from England to the Antipodes in the early years of the 19th century, concludes the private journal he has been keeping for his godfather and patron back home. Talbot's shipboard jottings have coalesced into the remarkable story he witnesses at sea: the long scapegoating and mysterious death of Robert James Colley, an Anglican clergyman...
...young professor at the University of Chicago, with its bellwether development of a liberal-arts core, Adler would have seemed to be in his element. But his freewheeling style so offended colleagues in the philosophy department that his friend and patron, President Robert Maynard Hutchins, had to tuck Adler into the law school, where he held the informal title of Professor of Blue Sky. He has always cherished the role of what he calls a "non grata in academe," preferring to communicate his message, largely through his books, to America at large. He has done so with such success that...