Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fiedler, 49, rose to prominence as an outspoken opponent of school busing. She bills herself as the candidate most loyal to President Reagan and hammers away at Zschau's anti-Administration stands on such issues as the MX missile and aid to the contra rebels in Nicaragua (though Zschau has reversed himself to endorse contra...
...largely ritualistic, from the secret ballot by which candidates are elected or rejected to the initiation ceremony in the darkened Signet library where each member-elect must read an original piece of writing before an invisible crowd of taunting members. At the end of the ceremony, a red rose is given to each new member to be saved for posterity and one day returned to the club with the member's first book or significant work. T.S. Eliot's initiation rose is on display in the library today...
...legal cloud that has hung over U.S. tobacco companies for years lifted slightly last week. In Philadelphia, a federal appeals court ruled that Philip Morris, the Liggett Group, the Loews Corp. and Loews Theatres did not have to compensate Antonio Cipollone for the death of his wife Rose, a pack-a-day smoker who died of lung cancer in 1984. The court's reason: cigarette-package health warnings that are mandatory under federal law protect the tobacco giants from claims that they fail to provide adequate notice of smoking's hazards. The decision in the liability lawsuit may affect almost...
...fighters thundered down the runway of King Abdul Aziz Air Base and rose steeply into the skies above the gulf. The flashy maneuver, conducted last week for visiting American Vice President George Bush, displayed the impressive might of a Saudi Arabian air force that has been largely trained and equipped by the U.S. Yet the show of strength was also a reminder of the dangers that confront Saudi Arabia, a fabulously wealthy kingdom that sits atop the largest proven oil reserves on earth. Faced with plunging revenues at home and increasingly ominous military threats abroad, the Saudis are passing through...
...after a number of vintners were first discovered to be adulterating their low-priced table wines with methyl alcohol, which is more commonly used as a paint solvent, at least 22 Italians had died and about 90 others were hospitalized after drinking the contaminated product. As the death toll rose, the Italian government listed some 300 labels as suspect, prompting worldwide concern and threatening the country's $953 million wine-export trade...