Word: present
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Forgive the present, Yevgeny Alexandrovich, but it's a precious thing nowadays," said a distant relative as she put a sack of sugar, almost impossible to find, on our May Day holiday table. This was in the 71st year of Soviet power, over 40 years after the war! And suddenly I caught myself happy with the small domestic predatory joy of obtaining, which for so many of us substitutes for any real joy of existence. The woman sighed and said, "Look what we've come to . . . And it's all the fault of our damned priterpelost...
...privacy of correspondence and telephone conversations." Encouraging as such language may be, most of those rights are already enshrined in the Soviet constitution. By mentioning them in the theses, the party is admitting that the freedoms have not been protected in the past and probably not in the present...
...Walsh must present the same evidence four times, using three separate % staffs (except in the Secord trial). That is because prosecutors trying one case are not supposed to know what immunized testimony was used in a previous trial -- a practical absurdity. Conceded a prosecution source: "There may be only one trial...
...does find something for her candied prose to cloy on. "He stirred in me all the emotions present in an intimate relationship," pants Huffington, who never met Picasso. "I was seduced by his magnetism, his intensity, that mysterious quality of inexhaustibility bursting forth from the transfixing stare of his black-marble eyes as much as from his work . . . Picasso was for the women and for many of the men in his life both the irresistibly sensual and seductive Don Juan and the divine Krishna." Add Dallas to Callas, and presto: Phallus...
...with Jackson that the U.S. should be tougher on South Africa, but he declines to support the step of labeling South Africa a "terrorist state" like Libya and Iran. He might go along with yet another review of delegate-selection rules, but he is not about to denounce the present system as undemocratic. Jackson, who believes that Party Chairman Paul Kirk is hostile to him, might seek his replacement after the convention. If he presses the point, Dukakis might sacrifice Kirk for the sake of amity. Last week Jackson admitted that he might back away from his demand...