Word: shrouds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Union that it has a permanent seat in the Security Council and therefore should have done more to stop the aggression." Conversations with Gaddafi and other Libyan officials always trail off into vagueness about what exactly the Soviets should have done, the same sort of vagueness and unreality that shroud Gaddafi's talk about a pan-Arab army...
...King informed his countrymen of Khalid's death over Saudi radio. "Our love for him compels us to continue his march, pursue his hopes and complete his plans," he said. In accordance with Islamic law and Saudi custom, Khalid's body was wrapped in a brown shroud and buried in an unmarked grave before sunset on the day he died...
...ever again be the same. Carol Miller, a former Port San Carlos resident now living in England, who guided the British military in their plans for the landing, described her home thus: "To the north there are rocks; to the south is a hillock. It's sufficient to shroud the houses from any view, from sea or air. The whole place is absolutely sheltered." No longer...
None of which, of course, seems to bother the President. For him, this latest masterpiece of indirection represents just one more shroud in which to cloak the shortcomings of his economic program...
...well increase by an incredible $400 billion more. Including so-called off-budget expenditures, such as federal-loan-guarantee programs for farmers, students and small businessmen, the Administration's real credit needs by 1984 will be a towering $1.4 trillion. The question that now hangs like a shroud over Reaganomics is whether the economy can endure such huge deficits and borrowing requirements...