Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course. In retrospect, a lot of things seem to be mistakes, and probably , in retrospect it was a mistake to keep key congressional leaders out. But that was a judgment that was made at the very top of this country. The judgment was made primarily by the NSC adviser and, I guess, the President...
Oliver North does not seem superstitious, and thus did not take his beloved Navy's 27-7 shellacking by Army as an omen for what the week ahead had in store for him. He attended the grand old game in Philadelphia as the guest of Navy Secretary John Lehman. North, like the good soldier he insists he is, spent his week without complaining -- and without explaining...
...Committee was a contest of sorts, but it ended without a score. North arrived in his formfitting Marine uniform, his chest bedecked with medals ("fruit salad," in military parlance). In a voice quavering with suppressed (or feigned) emotion, he took the Fifth Amendment, making his refusal to cooperate somehow seem heroic. "Despite my very strong desire to provide Congress with my recollection of the facts pertaining to this matter, counsel has advised me that I should avail myself of the protections provided by that same Constitution that I have fought to support and defend." Democrat Thomas Lantos pledged to contribute...
Each week brings new twists on the old Watergate question, the latest being: What else does the President claim not to know, and when will he realize he should know it? He doesn't seem sure whether he authorized the first Israeli shipments of arms to Iran in August 1985; he doesn't seem to know what his former National Security Council point man North did with the profits from the arms deals...
...palms might sweat next year watching the 76ers play. It has a place, but so many things have places. I'll move on." Seeing to his creaky knees, icing them down a thousandth time, Erving is often last out of the locker room. Whatever hour he leaves, there always seem to be children outside the door. "They don't want signatures anymore," he smiles. "They're looking for souvenirs." Winners' out. Memories...