Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acting operational head of the Chinese government. And finally, in his last champagne toast, Ford declared that the whole visit had been "significant," adding that his talks with the Chinese leaders had been "friendly, candid, substantial and constructive." It was as if the President constantly had to remind himself-and the people around him-that his journey across the Pacific was more than a political junket...
Twelve years later the amputated toes of two of the climbers serve to remind them of the costly mistake they made by reaching the summit of Everest just before sundown. Unable to return along the ridge in the darkness, they huddled together through the night against the cold. Their toes didn't bother them till they returned to base camp three days later and their feet began to thaw. Because of the pain in their toes they had to be carried down by porters...
During a recent visit to Peking, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt went to see a model farm that raised poultry for the city's best restaurants. Surveying hundreds of quacking ducks, he murmured, "They remind me of my party congress...
Sissela does not want any material treasures to remind her of her childhood in Sweden, so the garret contains nothing Swedish except her own language hidden in the bookshelf. Others bring in any Swedish souvenirs the house may harbor. Her parents often bring her son gifts from their travels; orange blue painted wooden horses from Sweden line the mantel in his room. "Like the ones I had when I was little," she says. In the library downstairs there is a white marble bust of Sissela, sculpted when she was 11. Her parents wanted to give work...
...courts Mamie (Dorrie Kavanaugh, an actress of spirited sensuality). He takes in a boarder, a subdued former Yeshiva student named Bernstein (Mel Howard), and prepares for the coming of his wife Gitl (Carol Kane) and infant son from the old country. Jake is not exhilarated by their arrival. They remind him of an older life now past; more important, he cannot break Mamie's erotic spell...