Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...side of the continent, Ronald Reagan seemed to be savoring his last days of freedom from the worries and responsibilities of the Oval Office. He made headlines only once, outside his Bel Air Presbyterian Church, when he said of the hostage crisis: "I don't think you pay ransom for people that have been kidnaped by barbarians." Otherwise, wearing scuffed boots and faded blue work clothes, he spent the early part of last week at his ranch in the Santa Ynez Mountains. Aides said that Reagan devoted most of his time to questions pertaining to the transition. Those matters...
...negotiators and the Algerian intermediaries had met at Camp David and in Washington for nearly four days to prepare the reply to Tehran's latest demand for the release of 52 American hostages-the infamous $24 billion "guarantee" that President Carter had angrily and accurately described as "ransom." Nonetheless, Administration officials decided that a final offer just might succeed. The U.S. negotiators placed two hopes on the latest effort: first, that a suitable formula could still be found for satisfying Iran's demands for financial guarantees; second, that the Iranians would prefer to strike an eleventh-hour deal...
...President is embittered anew over Iran's demand that the U.S. deposit $24 billion* into an Algerian bank account, pending the unfreezing of Iranian funds in U.S. banks, and the location and return of the late Shah's assets. "We will not pay any ransom," snapped an angry Carter. "We have never been willing to even consider that...
...Cummings and Edmund Wilson were discovering the seven lively arts, the Agrarians were frowning on movies and imploring the yeomen of Tennessee to switch off their Atwater Kent radios, take down that country fiddle from the wall and scrape out an Elizabethan air. Their best poet, John Crowe Ransom, magically evoked a land where larks' tongues are never stilled, "sunlight lies like pale spread straw" and ladies of "beauty and high degree" arrange jasmine in vases, as courtly gentlemen pace the veranda. "Turn your eyes to the immoderate past," Agrarian Allen Tate advised in his best poem...
...over his audiences, nonetheless, with sermons in fluent German and his personal warmth. He joshed a boy about skipping school to greet him, and prayed that kidnapers would release an eleven-year-old girl being held for ransom near Karlsruhe. The size of the crowds was modest only by John Paul's usual standards. More than half a million braved stiff breezes for a youth Mass at Munich's Oktoberfest grounds...