Word: reels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Government based its case on 53 wiretapped conversations, from over 200,000 discussions recorded by the FBI over a one-year period. On one reel, the jury heard co-defendant Allen M. Dorfman tell associates...
...EVERY NIGHT THIS WEEK. He got hold of a print and showed it to friends in the screening room of his Westport home not long ago, supplying everyone with a metal pot and a large wooden spoon to beat on it with. "It was fun for about the first reel," he said, "and then the awfulness of the thing took over...
...early life. The man who told the Tsar who succeeding ministers should be and where to deploy troops appears to have been an ex-horse thief. Certainly he was an alcoholic and a womanizer. At the end of a night spent listening to gypsy music, he would reel after prostitutes, the gold cross the Tsarina had given him swinging from his neck...
...media has recently begun to strip its coverage of the varnish that had shielded the President for more than a year. His sputtering economic policies, increasingly apparent insensitivity on civil rights, and vacillating foreign policy-largely shot from the hip-have even made Reagan's admirers begin to reel in disbelief and exasperation. That the press had treated the President with kid gloves, while fully aware of the White House's blunders incoherence, and incompetence now seems a particularly irresponsible error. But at least journalists are finally hungering to expose the President's inability to deal with the nation...
...Reagan's press conference style to reel off impressive-sounding statistics as did Kennedy, Nixon and Carter (who often sounded like schoolboys crammed for a test with answers they would quickly forget). Reagan sells his programs with simplifications, homilies and examples. And optimism: "I always tend to be optimistic," he said at one point. He proved his optimism when a question arose about "disarray in foreign policy" (a newly revived Washington cliche that was born in the Carter days). Said the President: "I think our accomplishments have been rather astounding... our allies-I don't think...