Word: sided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SOMETIMES, IN THE world of Soviet-American propaganda wars, one side scores a triumph which goes beyond the usual superficiality and sets people to thinking. So it was for the Soviet Union in the last days of 1986, when 50 Soviet emigres living in the United States voluntarily returned to their native country...
...reign supreme, whereas in Italy political institutions are less stable and established. Nonetheless, some political observers last week were starting to speculate about still another Italianization: the possible erosion of central-government authority. They speculated that the state's power could be chipped away from two directions. On one side, there are the protesting students, the spreading strikes and further demonstrations. On the other stands an ambitious government program for privatization, which, if it goes all the way, will sell off 65 large state-run companies and banks and thus reduce the government's power and purse strings...
...coming to grips with the fact that North just doesn't tell the truth very much," said one Reagan aide. But the tactic could backfire if the two rogue former NSC staffers, who have so far kept silent, decide to start talking. "So we're throwing Ollie over the side?" mused a White House official after watching the week's events. "That's not very smart...
...clear" the stone by washing it in ocean water (in a pinch, salt water will do). Then leave it outside for at least 24 hours so that rays of the sun and moon may penetrate it. A quicker, high-tech method is to pass an audiocassette eraser over each side of the crystal for half a minute. To program, after the crystal has been cleared, hold it in both hands and blow on it while making a wish. For good health, for instance, one might say, "I want this energy to aid my immune system...
...seems in danger of being transformed from a flesh-and-blood hero to a gauzy legend. Now a provocative new biography based on interviews with his closest associates and examination of FBI files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act sheds a revealing new light on King's human side and on the vicious secret pressures he faced from the FBI. The complex and convincing portrait drawn by David Garrow, associate professor of political science at New York's City College, describes how the bureau under J. Edgar Hoover tried to blackmail and intimidate King with tapes of his sexual...