Word: quondam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...modest apartment in Rio de Janeiro's fashionable Ipanema district, their quarry no doubt expected the visit: he had returned home the night before to find Brazilian reporters squatting on his doorstep, clamoring for interviews. After the authorities finally arrived, Mário Eduardo Firmenich, leader of the quondam Argentine urban guerrilla organization known as the Montoneros, surrendered without a struggle...
SENTENCED. Jodie Foster, 21, screen actress (Taxi Driver, The Hotel New Hampshire), quondam journalist (Esquire, Interview), Presidential Assailant John Hinckley's love object, and Yale senior; to one year on probation and a fine of $500 in court costs after pleading guilty to possession of a small amount of cocaine found during a Customs check at Logan Airport last December; in Boston...
Well, forget it. The Christian Broadcasting Network means to wash all that away in a tide of righteousness. According to a CBN promotion tape, Scott Davidson, quondam hero of CBN's flagship soap opera, Another Life, is not only a media analyst and anchorman of the "7 O'Clock News," he is "unique in the newsroom. Once he was a cynic, like his colleagues a man who was spiritually empty. That's changed. Faith has given Scott the strength to go beyond reporting. Now he gets involved...
...Germany. In his acceptance speech, the Crocodile showed plenty of the old snap. He called Americans "too arrogant" about smaller nations, demanded more freedom for the CIA and lamented the end of the draft as "one of the great casualties of the Viet Nam War." He also chided his quondam Soviet hosts as barbaric "Bolsheviks" determined to subjugate the sturdy people of Afghanistan...