Word: redness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left his country for perhaps the last time, the 76-year-old Stroessner wore a blue suit and red tie. He did not acknowledge the crowd and made no final gesture...
...League champion Princeton in straight sets, 15-6, 15-6, but picked up the pace in a close loss to the Quakers, 15-8, 15-13. In the last match, the Crimson edged out Cornell, 15-13, in the first game and, taking advantage of momentum and the Big Red's disorganization, won the second game and the match decisively...
...Soviet-backed Afghan government likes to control the news by supplying foreign correspondents with official "guides." Though Desmond's assigned minders complained that it was unauthorized, he managed to drive a few miles out along the snowy Salang Highway to a new Afghan army base currently guarding the Red Army's exit route...
...Liberal lady commentator from the Washington Post walks up the White House drive carrying bright red tote bag, a souvenir from last summer's Democratic Convention. Big braying donkey is stamped on the bag's side. Reminder of late Speaker Sam Rayburn's caution: "Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it." Footnote to the above: on any given day there are three times as many jackasses in Washington as there are Democrats...
...Security leaves only $28 billion in spending increases for all other programs in the 1992 budget. Moreover, Irving says, Medicare--left untouched--will cost an additional $65 billion in that year. Unless Medicare or other programs are drastically cut, she says, the budget will continue to operate in the red...