Word: present
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Polk is a shy college boy getting ready for a birthday present from his frat brothers--a night with a French Quarter prostitue. Drinking at the Blue Angel saloon to settle his nerves, he is intruded upon by Ashbe, a girl with horn-rimmed glasses and non-stop chitchat. The two misfits somehow hit it off and end up at Ashbe's unkempt apartment, where she serves Cheerios, marshmallows, and drinks with blue food-coloring. By the end of the night, they are dancing to the sweet sounds of New Orleans radio, very pleased in their shared oddness...
...IRRESPONSIBLE at present to call for the impeachment of the President. A special prosecutor and two Congressional committees are currently investigating his role in the Iran-contra affair. President Reagan erred in blatantly disregarding proper procedure; it would be unwise to make a similar mistake by leaping to a premature judgment...
GENEVA--U.S. and Soviet teams continued talks on medium-range nuclear missiles and President Reagan said the Americans would present new proposals today, when this round of talks originally had been scheduled...
...then nothing could prove better how shrunken, small, how unheroic that ideal is. This politics will not summon us with trumpets. The tone of our public life is not the old one--"These qualities made America the great country it is, and we must be true to them." The present tone is "these qualities made the country what it is, and we must settle for them...
...present, a drainage pipe transfers materials from three state highway routes, 128, 2, and 2A, directly into the Hobbs Brook (Cambridge) Reservior, said Flaherty's assistant...