Word: resorting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attitude to the Sudan coup caused the gap between me and the Soviet leaders to widen. Throughout July, August, and September, all I could receive in answer to my messages [inquiring about arms deliveries] was that [the leaders] were away in their Crimean summer resort...
...Giscard d'Estaing and Premier Raymond Barre privately predicted a center-right win-by a narrow margin. But the left still led the center-right parties by about 50% to 46% in the latest polls, and there were plainly still some Frenchmen who were ready to resort to the traditional Gallic suitcase defense against the possibility of abrupt political change. Headlines bannered the news last week when French customs officials nabbed Lucien Barrière, president of the gambling casinos in Cannes and Deauville, as he traveled to Switzerland by train with $634,000 in diamonds and other gems...
Iooss first met Cheryl three years ago when he photographed her for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's annual swimsuit issue for 1975, her second appear ance on that magazine's cover. Recalls Iooss: "We were shooting on location in Cancun, a Mexican resort that's a rough, hot four-hour car ride from the main airport. I thought she'd be furious. But Cheryl is a real pro - she arrived all smiles, no airs about her. She's like the average girl next door - just more beautiful than average...
...have a hunch how some of the mistakes occurred. If I may resort to the reconstructed quotation technique everyone seems to be using with such financial success these days, it "probably" went something like this...
...doubtful the meeting was considered as inconsequential by Carter as he would have us believe. The huddle did after all address the prospect of an unprecedented indictment against a former head of the intelligence community. In any case, the president was forced to resort to explanations of this sort because of his own initial ineptness. Or sloppiness. Call it what you like, but the president of this country lied because the Watergate ethos of clearing one's name of complicity through cover-up is easier than admitting error...