Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...testament to Gorbachev's brilliance as a politician that he could preside over four years of failure in agriculture and still come out smelling like a rose. He has the confidence of the Soviet bureaucracy because they believe he is a true believer. He isn't going to change the system. He is going to try to make it work better...
Hoxha, the product of a middle-class Muslim home and a French education, rose to power as head of the partisan resistance to the German and Italian occupation in World War II. He ruled Albania ruthlessly, sending tens of thousands to forced-labor camps. He tolerated no political opposition, and his rivals were frequently eliminated, including Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu, his closest associate. Shehu was officially reported to have committed suicide in December 1981, but it was widely rumored that Hoxha shot him in an argument over seeking ties with the West, which Hoxha then opposed...
...traveling to Europe only for the shopping bargains would be like going to the Super Bowl to buy a souvenir T shirt. Looking at the rose windows of Chartres, one of the great creations in the Western world, does not cost anything at all, nor does the view of the moon rising over the Piazza San Marco in Venice. Sights like these, combined with the pleasures of good food and drink, are the perennial bargains of European travel...
...opening day in Cincinnati, Marge Schott, owner of the hometown Reds, threw out the first ball overhand. "Like the big boys," she boasts. Along with Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, Schott got to watch Reds Player- Manager Pete Rose drive in three runs on two hits, nailing down a 4-1 victory over the Montreal Expos and leaping out of the gate on his quest to catch Ty Cobb's 4,191-hit record. Rose, 44, now has fewer than 100 to go. Though he was hot, Cincinnati was downright wintry. The game was delayed twice because of snow. Since...
...people tested, the pitch of the voice rose slightly when they were upset, afraid or angry, a broad clue to the possibility that they were lying...