Word: rattler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...table, they wait. And wait. First Maxwell wraps a deal for a Moroccan satellite channel. Next his personal secretary, Andrea Martin, 25, a pale blond, appears with a message. Maxwell reads it and thunders, "He is as keen on this idea as if he was bitten by a rattler on the anus." Accustomed to such eruptions, Martin slips away as another button lights. "Latrine rumors!" he shouts into the speaker. "We are going to sue." Suddenly, he tells the Israelis he will aid the bond drive. "I always say yes. If I were a woman, I would always be pregnant...
Gunslinger? Saber rattler? The accusation pains the President. But he is convinced that the Soviets went back to Geneva because they felt it was finally in their interest. "We had unilaterally disarmed so over the years that there wasn't any reason for the Soviet Union to give in . . . We are showing a determination to maintain a national defense policy. They hadn't seen that before. And I think they knew that we were looking at them realistically, and then I think the crowning thing was our going forward with research to see if there was a defensive weapon...
...provoked, the diminutive (5 ft.) Whitmire can be as scrappy as a Lone Star rattler. When one of her opponents refused to debate her in the 1981 campaign, she challenged him to "come out and fight like a man." Whitmire says she is content running the nation's fourth largest city and has no vice-presidential ambitions. Says Texas Democratic Chairman Robert Slagle: "She's a darn good mayor, a very impressive woman and smart as a whip. But I think people are going to be a little bit reluctant to buy the idea that you can jump...
...gone through emotional swings on the issue. If Jimmy Carter arrived in Washington determined to banish nuclear weapons from the face of the earth, he ended his term supporting a new MX system, as well as Pershing and cruise missiles. If Ronald Reagan took power as a nuclear saber rattler, he at least has now toned down his language some and learned a lot about the world's desire to search for a way to reduce arms...
...countered the early Beatles' cheerful harmonies with a rough-edged interpretation of what Jagger. Richards and Jones imagined America sounded like. Dominated by covers of American hits. The Rolling Stones, prepared critics and fans for the Stones first big single, "Not Fade Away," an aging Buddy Holly rattler which Richards souped up Chicago style...