Word: pleasingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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On Iran, Carter seemed willing to bow to European pleas for restraint; even Thatcher's Foreign Minister, Lord Carrington, has been telling him that economic sanctions will do nothing to free the hostages and may help push Tehran into the Soviet orbit. But there was a chance that Carter...
Though Soviet leaders periodically urge managers and workers to be more efficient, little if anything ever seems to come from such pleas. In 1965 Premier Alexei Kosygin endorsed administrative changes that would have given state firms more authority to initiate plans on their own, enter into direct contracts with their...
There is a rising tide of bitterness in black America. It existed well before the vicious race riot last month that killed 16 people and sent ugly plumes of smoke into the night skies over Miami. But the violence caught the attention of white America-and that fact too causes...
The time to move now seemed ripe. An International Red Cross visit had determined that all 50 hostages seized at the embassy were still being held in the compound. U.S. planners had learned that the number of militants guarding the captives had declined. Soon the protective darkness of the nights...
As Zuss, Alice Brown's booming voice and flamboyant style capture the arrogance of her character, a person so awed by the splendor and magnificence of the Almighty that she can never doubt the rightness of His actions. Her performance perfectly complements rumpled David Reiffel's Nickles, to whom MacLeish...