Word: rangely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kennedys went to Dallas on a political fence-mending trip in a state the Democrats had barely won in 1960. The shots rang out as they endured a hot motorcade trip across town. Afterward many people tried to persuade Jackie to change her clothes, but she insisted on wearing the stained pink suit. "I want them to see what they have done," she said. She also refused to take tranquilizers, fearing they would blunt her reactions and interfere with her planning -- because plan the funeral she did. The riderless horse, the eternal flame, the wailing Irish bagpipe -- all were...
...lest one think that this contrast is rare, consider the words of the New Republic staff editorial written following the Hebron massacre, which recently rang too true: "When, one needs to ask, did a Middle Eastern government or a Palestinian leader, or even a group of Arab intellectuals utter a word of contrition--to say nothing of words like Rabin's--about any of the scores of incidents in which Jewish innocents were cut down no less brutally than the men at prayer in Hebron, and cut down on orders from some official high command at that? The answer...
Kevin Carter, Reuter: "I had my back to the scene, and a double shot rang out. Everyone headed for cover. I did the same. Straight after, I looked back and saw ((the soldier)) about to shoot the second chap. I shot two frames off. ((Later)) everyone was 'well done-ing' me. But I knew I had missed the shot. I made the mistake of running for cover instead of turning around, coldly analyzing the situation and shooting a great execution picture . . . Why didn't we help them? I personally appealed to a policeman, 'Take your prisoners and lock them...
...latest problem arose late Friday afternoon, when the phone rang in the office of associate White House counsel William Kennedy III. On the other end was an FBI official, calling to tell him that subpoenas ordered by special counsel Robert Fiske were about to be served on six White House officials and three Treasury Department staff members. Kennedy brought the bad news to chief of staff Mack McLarty, who gathered five of the targeted aides in the counsel's office at 6 to await the subpoenas...
...rang with the sort of cries for blood that can make continued talk of peace a hollow mockery. "Today is for the Jews, but tomorrow is for us," vowed a Palestinian on the sacred grounds of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock. Even Freih Abu Middain, the normally moderate head of the bar association in the Gaza Strip, talked of future bloodshed: "Had this massacre happened after we had a Palestinian police force, we would be going into the Jewish settlements and killing at least 100 people there. Our people will not remain silent...