Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wright scolded the President for other policies that revealed a "gap between rhetoric and reality." Just three months after signing a bill to fight drugs, Reagan "wants to cut that pledge in half." Wright described Reagan's proposal to cut education funds for the next fiscal year by 28% as...
Jeering at the marchers along the roadway and at the county courthouse in Cumming was a mob of about 1,000 whites wearing the face of hatred. White- robed thugs from the Ku Klux Klan shouting "Go home, niggers!" Out-of- state zealots who call themselves Aryans and dementedly pledge...
The ceremony at which Macmillan accepted the peerage was tinged with sadness. Robed in resplendent red with ermine trim, he seemed to personify Britain's decline as a great power. He stood frail and trembling, an aging lion leaning on a walking stick concealed beneath his robes. When it came...
The first sign of a new policy toward the famous dissidents came a year ago. Following a 30-day hunger strike by Sakharov to force Moscow to allow his wife to seek medical treatment abroad, Bonner was permitted to go to the U.S. for a coronary-bypass operation. At the...
Durenberger made clear that he did not think their refusal to testify was any reflection on Reagan's pledge to cooperate fully in any investigations. "I think this is a personal decision on the part of an admiral and two Marine officers," he said.