Word: saws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard time shooting, which contributed to some of their runs," said Gilly, who was 0-for-6 from the field and saw his team shoot a dismal 36 percent from the field and 42 percent from the free throw line...
...numbed by what I saw, not because of surprise but due to disbelief. This had happened to me!--a former member of the Race Relations Advisory Committee of Harvard College, the former chairman of the Educational and Political Action Committee of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association, the person who had worked to improve race relations on my campus and who had addressed incidents of racial harassment of others to the administration. Then I looked at this within the "Big Picture." That picture contained the recently dedicated memorial to slain civil rights activists in Montgomery, Ala.; and, closer to home...
Actually, the number of farm animals I saw in Nebraska this past weekend was identical to the number of people I saw wearing overalls--zero. However, I wish I could have stuffed all the differences into my suitcase and brought them back...
...case Sullivan did not understand that inviting the Hatch nominees into the department was a condition of the Senator's support, Hatch also relayed his list to Sununu, who could be counted on to recognize a quid pro quo when he saw one. "The Administration promised to put antiabortion people all around Sullivan," complains Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. "They made sure he wouldn't exercise independent judgment." Hatch brushes off all of the protests. "Bush has said he stands for certain principles," the Senator says. "So why should he appoint...
...ended up being pilloried by a couple of junior Senators named Joseph McCarthy and Richard Nixon. It was Nixon who called Truman's Secretary of State the dean of the "cowardly college of Communist containment." Two decades later, the New Nixon's policy of detente ran into a buzz saw of bipartisan anti-Soviet opposition. When a Watergate-wounded Nixon went to see Leonid Brezhnev in the Crimea in 1974, he refused to visit Yalta nearby, lest anyone accuse him of another giveaway. It was all for naught: the traveling White House press gleefully filed stories with the dread dateline...