Word: snipe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true. What about the bombing of my residence in Tunis ((in 1985)) -- four buildings destroyed, 74 killed, 122 wounded. And the same during the Beirut fighting ((in 1982)). They tried to snipe at me by airplane. ((Israeli General Ariel)) Sharon said, "We will get him." But he did not succeed...
...declared, "that five of six Republican candidates refuse to support the new arms-control agreement." The next night Michael Dukakis painted the treaty opponents as captives of ultraconservative ideologues: "Do we need any further proof that the radical right has a stranglehold on the Republican Party?" As conservatives snipe at the White House, Democrats can say with a smile that they stand united in support of Ronald Reagan...
...mirrored within the U.S. Government. The Pentagon and the Commerce Department have battled over the proper level of high-tech sales to the Soviets. Defense officials are acutely aware that the U.S. relies on the technological superiority of its weapons to offset Soviet numerical advantages, and they occasionally snipe at Commerce for missing Moscow's subterfuges. At the same time, Congressmen representing ^ districts dominated by high-tech industries disagree with regulators concerning the levels of control...
...seesaw struggle between doctrinaire Communist hard-liners and pragmatic reformists had taken yet another swing. In recent months, the reformists had been gaining greater control over the economy. Now, however, the ideologues have apparently persuaded Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping that the party cannot afford to shelter those who snipe at its authority. Though Wu was the only intellectual whose departure has been confirmed, as many as four other liberal theoreticians and journalists have reportedly been asked to quit the party...
Whack! Bam! Snipe! Antoine (Michel Blanc) and Monique (Miou-Miou) bicker like dogs in hate. The beleaguered husband and wife are about to kill each other, in front of everybody at their favorite Paris dive, when a stranger named Bob (Gerard Depardieu) joins in the fray. Changes their lives too. This pansexual thief takes the couple on his heists and woos them both before vacating the premises. He takes Monique to bed but pines indefatigably for mousy Antoine. Unashamed by his voracious sexual appetite, Bob overwhelms the poor little guy. Who could resist such declarations of ardor? They become lovers...