Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Ronald Reagan is in semi-retirement, many gentlemen have begun to come forward to seek the presidency for them-selves--to throw their hats in the ring, as they say, thus revealing their coiffures...
That poignant valedictory, like almost everything else in A Walk in the Woods, has the ring of political truth. Playwright Lee Blessing apparently was inspired by a real-life walk in the woods, between U.S. Negotiator Paul Nitze and Soviet Delegate Yuli Kvitsinsky, during arms-control talks in Geneva in 1983. His wry and engaging new work at the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, Conn., persuasively imagines the human fabric of a similar fictional enterprise. Blessing's conceit is that the Soviet negotiator, far from a stereotypical xenophobe, is worldly, glib and cynical, while the American newcomer is stuffy...
Indeed a beep machine seemed superfluous considering someone had already installed a phone by the empty bed beside me which kept on ringing with calls for someone named "Herman." The telephone lay just out of my reach, waiting silently for the precise moment of my dream when the girl comes in. Then it would ring, I would jump, and some nimrod on the other end would ask for "Herman" or hang up at the sound of my enraged greeting. I thought maybe the nurses were calling the number and then laughing hysterically when I answered. I asked for the extra...
Only days before the sentencing, the Government's dragnet had proved effective in snagging another suspect, this time outside the Boesky ring. Israel Grossman, a 34-year-old Manhattan lawyer, was charged with sharing information about a Colt Industries stock buy-back with at least six friends and relatives. His telephone tips allegedly enabled them to reap $1.5 million in profits on their investments of just...
...Reagan declared the crackdown on Polish Solidarity intolerable. And the intolerable endured, despite the brave words. To be serious about containing Sandinista subversion -- overt and covert -- will mean vigilance, resources and risk. It will mean everything from pouring aid into El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica to establishing a ring of American bases around the border of Nicaragua; even, as Walter Mondale suggested during the 1984 campaign, to setting up a naval blockade to contain the Sandinistas. But why is it preferable so hugely to commit American resources? To station permanently American troops to serve as a trip wire? (That...