Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...LACK OF Republican resolve offers a rare opportunity to Democrats who are casting about, so far unsuccessfully, for a response to the Reagan Administration. Democrats have generally allowed Republicans to frame the political debate in terms of defense spending, which is very different--and the difference is often lost--from foreign policy. Because Democrats want less spending, they are perceived as isolationists--soft on communism, unwilling to fight the Sandinista threat in Nicaragua...
WITH COUNTLESS STORIES of recent labor union losses it is rare to find a group of employees unwavering in their demands. The setting for such a tale is Austin, Minnesota, where the country's most interesting and controversial labor battle is taking place...
...Rare indeed is the mystery novelist who ages well. Agatha Christie lost her sense of humor, Dorothy Sayers her plot outlines, John le Carre his vital interest in the genre. But at 73, Julian Symons has just published perhaps his best mystery ever, a fiendish little puzzle that is elegantly written and pitilessly observed...
Kate Simon, best known as the author of guidebooks, is one of those rare writers who is preternaturally incapable of composing a dull sentence. Here, for example, are the pickings of a random sampling of her work. A description of a Canal Street flea market from New York Places and Pleasures: "Inside, a sizable jungle of loose white and tan shoelaces, Dracula banks which need batteries for pushing out a pale green hand to grasp a coin, among the books one volume of an obsolete encyclopedia and a novel by Clare Boothe Luce." From Mexico Places and Pleasures: "One young...
Although the sweatshirts theoretically range in size from small to extra-large, a shirt that terminates above mid-thigh is a rare find...