Word: shedding
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Woodward's book, "Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA," seems to shed light on a mystery that has stumped investigators for almost a year. Former White House aide Oliver North is the only other person to have said that Casey knew about the diversion of funds from arms sales to the Iranians...
...years in the cynical corridors of Washington, Dole has never shed her civics-student earnestness. It is ingrained in her speech: her husband's campaign will provide her with an "opportunity"; she looks forward to the "challenge." Deep down, she is still traditional. "When Bob makes his announcement," she says, "instinctively I want to be at his side." Warm, feminine and indefatigably gracious, she embodies what Americans seem to expect of a potential First Lady, but not precisely what they were used to in a powerful and problem-plagued Cabinet Secretary. Combining those two roles, she found, is nearly impossible...
Seven minutes later he arrived at the row house he shared with his widowed mother in Hungerford. He shot her, killed the family dog and set the house on fire. Retrieving a semiautomatic Kalashnikov assault rifle and ammunition from a garden shed, Ryan began walking toward the center of town, firing bursts and reloading as he went. "He was just strolling along the road, shooting at anything that moved," said Barbara Morley. Said another witness, Christopher Browsher: "He looked just like Rambo...
...Glass recounted the story later, the first challenge was to shed his chains. Glass, 36, found that when he made a fist, he could wriggle out of the wrist binding, but the leg chain was trickier. With pieces of thread shredded from his blindfold, Glass bound links of the chain together, and over a period of days fooled his guards into loosening the tether. On the first night that he could pull free, Glass waited until he could hear the snores of his guards. Loosening the chains, he slipped onto the balcony of the high-rise building where...
Harvard scholars contacted said yesterday that while little Congressional action would emerge as a result of the Iran-Contra hearings, the investigation was important because it shed light on a failed foreign policy and provided the public with a necessary civics lesson...