Word: proclaiming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three candidates sought the First U.S. Congressional District seat from South Carolina, right in the heart of the Protestant South. Atwater apparently asked the third-party candidate to advertise the fact that the Democratic candidate, Max Heller, was Jewish. The independent proceeded to proclaim that Heller did not believe that "Jesus Christ has come...
Postmortems had already begun. Baghdad Radio claimed that Iraq had won but could give no rationale except some mumblings about spirit. In Moscow generals hastened to proclaim that the destruction of Iraq's mostly Soviet-built equipment said more about the deficiencies of the Iraqi military than the quality of the weapons. Some of them hinted, however, that Soviet cuts in military spending, if carried much further, might begin to weaken the nation's defenses against the demonstrated proficiency of Western high-tech weaponry...
Aleman, however, says that some people have used yellow ribbons to support more than the soldiers. At a pro-war rally last Thursday, Aleman says, he was "dismayed to see people using yellow ribbons to proclaim a pro-war agenda...
...mercifully on behalf of its most desperate citizens, a country loses more than its credibility; it weakens its character. After such a long and ambivalent search for answers to this problem, Americans should rejoice that there is at last an opportunity to act on the principles they so proudly proclaim...
...dusty pickups and weathered sedans to confront what they say is a criminal invasion of America. They park single file along a marshy field on the San Diego-Tijuana border. Soon the men and women are engaged in chitchat typical of a social event. Their crimson bumper stickers proclaim WE WANT ORDER ON OUR BORDER, a demand that nearby U.S. Border Patrol agents work hard to enforce. Some of the 800 officers, who nightly nab upwards of 1,500 immigrants in this sector alone, buzz by in spotter choppers or patrol in four-wheel-drive vehicles, while others survey...