Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very good health, just like Argentina." That was the sanguine remark of Josó López Rega, Argentina's star-gazing gray eminence, as he arrived last week in Madrid, supposedly to become a special ambassador from Buenos Aires in Europe. In fact, his comment was inaccurate in almost every respect...
...book consists of a string of reflections on friendship, privacy, celebrity, sex (which Andy thinks is work) and how to run an art business. The same tone of grayout pervades every remark. For example: "I really like to eat alone. I want to start a chain of restaurants for other people who are like me called Andy-Mats-The Restaurant for the Lonely Person. You get your food and then you take your tray into a booth and watch television...
...disclosures. In the President's case, it is unlikely that he spoke out of guile. "I don't know how devious the President is," answers Ron Nessen, "and I'm not going to ask him." Managing Editor Rosenthal sees no skulduggery in the President's remark. Says he: "How did he know that we would respect the off-the-record part...
Vischer says that King Louis XIV's purported remark, "I am the state," would "hardly be an exaggeration on the lips of the Pope," who is an absolute monarch in his postage-stamp realm. Vischer also argues that Vatican City's existence as a sovereign state limits the church's readiness to support anti-establishment political movements...
...displayed superb organization in setting up the camp, rounded up three blankets for every refugee and issued each a hooded field jacket. The refugees organized a committee responsible for small personal needs, medical services and English-language courses. There was something hauntingly familiar about a Marine captain's remark: "The Vietnamese run my camp. My Marines are there purely in an advisory capacity...