Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taken on a symbolic importance well beyond its dubious strategic value. After three days of pitched battle two weeks ago, contra guerrillas from the Democratic Revolutionary Alliance (ARDE) overwhelmed the Sandinista garrison in the town and scored their first major military victory. After a few uneasy days of quiet, Nicaraguan troops counterattacked last week. As several hundred soldiers advanced, planes and helicopters swooped down and bombed the town. The guerrillas quickly slipped back into the jungle, leaving the smoking remains of San Juan del Norte to be reclaimed by the Sandinistas...
...object to Haig's use of the word obsequiousness in referring to Jimmy Carter. The former President's quiet way of attaining his goals is preferable to Haig's belligerence...
...techniques. Indeed, Jackson seems determined to stay cranked up. "I have never known him to rest," says Frank Watkins, his press secretary, "except when he was ordered by the doctor to go to the hospital [for exhaustion, hi 1979]." Mondale, before his defeat hi New Hampshire, could afford three quiet hours a day in his hotel room; now he relies on naps in transit. Lately, Hart's handlers have tried to schedule only three major campaign events a day. "It's surprising to me," says Henkel, "that Gary is holding up so well, that his psyche is largely...
Three different goals from three different Minutemen put the visitors on top, 3 0 with 8 31 left in the first half and had the Crimson hearing a quiet dirge...
...done a damn good job. Those extreme environmental groups were spoiled under President Carter. They never paid any attention to hunters." In fact, even some environmentalists give the flamboyant Arnett his due, applauding his battle for more funds for the Fish and Wildlife Service, as well as his quiet scuttling of the appointment of an unqualified Reagan crony as director of the agency. They even appreciate his candor. Says one longtime adversary: "Ray is 100% honest. If he's going to oppose you, he'll tell you before he does, while he's doing it and after...