Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's end he would be expected at the convocation of conservatives for the National Review's 25th anniversary dinner in the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Reagan would not show ?a mix-up in his calendar. Riled, his hosts would sing his praises over dessert nonetheless. He was the answer to their prayers, after all; the essential reason for the elegant, confident glow of the evening. Editor William F. Buckley Jr. would shine quietly, modestly. Others, like Publisher William Rusher, would exhort the assembled "to stamp out any remaining embers of liberalism." A war whoop...
...sell them off as yearlings. When he was younger, he had his own system of breaking horses, first with a lunge line in the ring, then lying stomach-down across their backs, all the time emphasizing verbal commands. As he was explaining his approach, he burst into a sing-song chant from his cavalry days: "Walk ho-o!" he cried out. He was silent for a moment. Then he let loose again: "Tro hoo!" he yelled, as if he were back in a movie at Fort Bravo...
...difficulties physically more vigorous and politically more powerful than before. On his state visit to India earlier this month, he had to be helped up and down stairs, but otherwise looked alert and vital. In February he is expected to preside over the 26th Communist Party Congress, which will sing his praises as it sets the tone and direction of Soviet policy for the next five years...
...glow enveloped the 55-ft. spruce, Boston Pops Conductor John Williams led a choir of 500 boys and girls from local schools in Silent Night as 10,000 Bostonians sang along. In Chicago 2,300 amateurs filled Orchestra Hall to overflowing for the city's fifth annual sing-it-yourself production of Handel's Messiah. Jeane Moore, a Montana housewife, flew 1,600 miles from Kalispell just to sing in Chicago after seeing the concert last year on television. Said Conductor Margaret Hillis to an earnest cast, as an all-volunteer, 100-piece orchestra (aged twelve...
...millions of the starving sing hosannas in praise of our science god, who provides such life-enriching technological developments as microwave ovens and live TV broadcasts. Would that this god look about his feet with the same dedication that he looks at the stars...