Word: rug
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there can't be covered properly. News must be gathered from diplomats, whose own movements are limited, or distilled from travelers, whose passionate descriptions often outrun their knowledge. The Associated Press hasn't been able to get anyone into Afghanistan since Edie Lederer, posing as a rug-buying tourist, traveled through the countryside last May. She came out with a colorful story and four rugs. In Iran, no American correspondent can get accredited to Khomeini's regime; to cover the story, news-gathering organizations must make use of foreign reporters and other stratagems they...
...Waits married? Settled into a nice suburban split-level? Little Toms and Tomasinas on the rug? "Sure. I'd like to have about seven of 'em." But Waits' idyllic homelife is still far off; he has yet to stumble starry-eyed upon Mrs. Right, though he's looking. "I'll take a white girl," he gleams, "about five-two with big tits and bad teeth...
American officials believe, but lack concrete proof, that the zealots in Tehran have been financing militant Iranian activities in the U.S. The key man is suspected to be Bahram Nahidian, a Georgetown rug merchant who is believed to have access to several million dollars provided by Iran. U.S. law enforcement officials think that the Iranian militant network in this country is in daily radio and telephone contact with the hard-liners in Tehran. Officials even feel that some of the Iranians have been recruited as assassins to intimidate and eliminate leaders of the anti-Khomeini Iranian community in America...
...again and again and again and again. Tommy Ryan's body made stupid drunken lurches all over the table. He reached out a hand and grabbed a dinner platter and pulled it with him to the floor. The big lobster lay next to Tommy Ryan on the thick Persian rug...
...what used to be respected as intimate lore is conspicuous and feverish enough to have provoked some thought about the implications of the trend. Something more than a mere departure from decorum must be involved when a society begins to live habitually in a blizzard of under-the-rug sweepings. Only the simple-minded could shrug it off as nothing more than a side effect of the open and permissive social mode that emerged in the 1960s. Letting it all hang out may be refreshing and even healthy, but not under all circumstances; neither honesty nor candor requires that anybody...