Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agree with Gerald Clarke's thought that there isn't as much "effervescent giddiness" in The Empire Strikes Back as in Star Wars [May 19]. Even more than Star Wars, Empire made me want to jump in my spaceship and rush to help the rebels against Darth Vader...
...likely to encounter considerable skepticism. A senior West German diplomat says that his government, while nearly fed up with the Carter Administration's blunders and mixed signals, is "apprehensive, to put it mildly," about the G.O.P. leader. He adds: "He will find us extremely reluctant to rush headlong with him into a new cold war." Reagan has stated that one of his first items of business will be to deploy the neutron bomb in Western Europe, but the West Germans and other NATO allies have already put the U.S. on notice that they will permit the upgrading...
...novels of mine appearing simultaneously in the West? A double? I felt like the Hawaiian surf riders described by Jack London, standing upright on a smooth board, with nothing to hold on to, nothing to hamper me, on the crest of the ninth wave, my lungs bursting from the rush of air. I divined, I sensed, that it would work! It would come off. And our masters would have to lump...
...station that something strange was happening," Bertagna, now director of sports information, remembers. "It was too quiet. You can usually hear the traffic and everything from the Square outside, but instead there was this eerie quiet. As I'm walking up the stairs these four guys wearing gas masks rush past me in the other direction and warn me to watch out. 'Jesus, what the hell am I doing here?' I wondered." When Bertagna got outside, lines of police stretched out down Mass Ave, nightsticks in hand, watching, waiting, silent...
...Giscard later conceded, the five-hour conversation predictably failed to deflect the Soviets from their determination to maintain control of Afghanistan. Thus the French President gave the impression of being an unsuccessful appeaser, with nothing to show for his efforts. More to the point, Giscard's unseemly rush to meet with Brezhnev unnecessarily widened the breach between Paris and Washington. Even before the trip, the U.S.-French relationship had been stretched to the danger point by what Western Europeans see as Jimmy Carter's overreaction to Afghanistan and the holding of U.S. hostages in Iran. Giscard...