Word: sag
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...abbey town of Shrewsbury. Like his 20th century soulmate, Father Brown of the G.K. Chesterton stories, Cadfael attractively suggests that the highest act of faith is the use of reason. Robert Barnard, whose mordantly funny one-off mysteries are as good as any currently being produced, has tended to sag in the too cute series featuring Perry Trethowan, a highborn cop. In Cherry Blossom Corpse (Scribners; 213 pages; $14.95), Barnard is back at his malicious best. Perry accompanies his sister to a convention of romance novelists where, literarily speaking at * least, murder is the least of the crimes on display...
...terms of range of motion and comfort on the water bed than conventional bedding," he says. But Dr. Rene Caillet, a rehabilitation specialist at Santa Monica Hospital Medical Center, is unconvinced. "If you lie on your stomach, the water bed allows you to increase the sway or the sag of the back," he notes...
Gaddafi's military campaign began to sag last October, when he had a falling-out with Goukouni Oueddei, a former Chadian President and leader of rebel forces battling the present government. That rupture prompted most of the guerrillas to shift their loyalties from Gaddafi to Chadian President Hissene Habre and his French-backed army. Habre, who received $15 million in U.S. emergency aid late last year, began a major drive against the Libyans in December. The effort paid off one month later, when government forces captured the Libyan base at Fada, in northeastern Chad. According to U.S. and French officials...
...first among equals is Alfredo del Mazo Gonzalez, 43, De la Madrid's Minister of Energy. Del Mazo has held bank posts and served as governor of the state of Mexico before assuming his current portfolio, which has demanded careful management of Mexico's precious oil reserves while the sag in prices continues. Not long ago, De la Madrid reportedly called Del Mazo the "younger brother I never...
Kidding aside, the fine edge of courage is honed by energy, exhilaration, adventure and the promise of applause. When does a man approaching 76, with various parts of his body needing repair, begin to sag under the burden of his years, to retreat from the prospect of emotional battering...