Word: remarkably
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...situation in South Africa steadily grew more dangerous, and inevitably began to damage the country's economy, the government of State President P.W. Botha seemed embarked on a course of heavy-handedness and overkill. So quickly has the situation deteriorated that a senior Washington official was led to remark caustically last week that the Botha government has demonstrated a pronounced tendency "to shoot itself in the foot...
Unity, the fourth sister, went further than Diana to justify the remark of an old family friend: "You Mitfords like dictators." She held hands with Hitler, whom she described as "sweet" as well as "the greatest man of all time." Diana spent nearly 3 1/2 years in prison during World War II for her romance with fascism. Unity shot and grievously wounded herself when her beloved England went to war with her beloved Germany...
Innards are terribly important to all the characters. The President approvingly decides that Dr. Christian has "guts. Scads of guts." Skeptics may argue that such a remark is no funnier than those that appear in many best sellers. They underestimate McCullough's mastery of sublime inanity. What other writer would somberly portray a heroine "feeling her purpose trickle away between her legs like a slow haemorrhage"? Where else could one find a statement both so unconsciously offensive and grammatically inept as "A devout Jew but nonetheless the most Christian of gentlemen, his sins were purely sins of omission...
...first such demonstration since 1890, when Democrats walked out over another angrily contested election in South Carolina. "You know how to win votes the old-fashioned way," Republican Bob McEwen of Ohio told House Speaker Tip O'Neill in the heat of the debate. "You steal them." McEwen's remark was only one of the unseemly recriminations flung by House Republicans at their Democratic colleagues during the turbulent week. A relatively mild comment came from Minority Leader Robert Michel when ! he said the Democratic majority had "run roughshod" over the Republicans. Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas scoffed...
...attempts to justify what was most likely an error in his staff's planning, the President has made statements we find very troubling. We are particularly disturbed by his remark that the Nazis buried at Bitburg "were victims, just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps." Is it necessary to overlook the guilt of fascist Germans of 1945 in order to achieve reconciliation with the democratic Germans...