Word: pose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take weeks or months before the House version could be reconciled with a Senate bill and put into a form that Reagan might sign. Thus, attaching the contra aid to the spending bill meant at least a long delay in money for the rebels, and even then, it would pose a difficult decision for Reagan on whether to veto the combined legislation...
...example, the Crimson editors have not examined the greatest threats to such openess as it concerns research in political and social science. This is the threat posed by dictatorships and closed societies all over the world to researchers who write about them. Works based on selective access to documents cannot be assessed by other scholars not so privileged. Nor can we be fully confident of works written by scholars who have been given access to materials denied to others. While such problems may be less interesting than the hot topics of money and CIA, they are at least as important...
Perhaps the most heated exchange in the pages of The Crimson this year concerned the propriety of running an ad for Harvard-Radcliffe women to pose for Playboy. Editors seemed to show concern about the exploitation of women in their arguments against printing the Playboy...
...minutes later another reason for Sergy's apprehension became apparent. Olga, eight-years-old, burst into the room, grinning at us, cager to pose for a picture. Her mother explained to us that Olga is "very gifted in everything." When Olga sat down at the piano and began to play one of her compositions, we realized that her mother's words reflected more than parental pride...
...sleeping together in the altogether. When an affronted parliamentary chairman demanded an explanation, the gladhanding lovers turned suddenly cool. Welter said that she merely wished "to give politics a romantic flavor." Cevaal, asserting, somewhat needlessly perhaps, that the couple had "nothing to hide," said that they had volunteered to pose, without charging a fee, in order to show that "politicians are human too." Unimpressed by those explanations, the Liberals last week decided to fire both of its exposed members...