Word: rest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rest assured," the President told the nation, "there's plenty of record-keeping now going on at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
There is no justification for rest. Bookkeepers are not adequate guardians of the President's obligation to act within the law. Reagan's failure to apologize for what--at best--was a profound dereliction of duty makes clear his lack of respect for the idea that, at least in this country, the people are supreme. He acknowledges yielding authority to a secret government but thinks he is only at fault because the secret government was a poor...
...next barrier to my rest was the methodically beeping noise that emanated from an machine which, as far as anyone there knew, served no purpose other than to keep me awake. I asked them to turn it off, and was stunned to find that there was no rule against this. I guess they were confident that they had enough other rules which would keep me awake without having to worry about the extra assurance of a beep machine...
...lives for basketball," Harvard Coach Peter Roby says, "and I think it's infected the rest of the guys...
...Sergei F. Akhromeyev, the Soviet army chief of staff, said Monday that 243 were aimed at Europe. The rest presumably are in Asia...