Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late Adlai Stevenson who said that public opinion is the sovereign of us all. I have always believed that the press has an enormous responsibility in helping to form a sound public opinion rooted in truth and fact and not in conjecture, innuendo and/or rumor. The writer of this article did little to form such public opinion. That was due in part to his being duped by double-speak by some and in part to the paucity of his individual investigative initiative, which went no deeper than to quote The Boston Phoenix. Such limitation suggests a less than maximal presence...
...Sound suspicious? Now imagine that the police are investigating these book-stores for alleged price-fixing. You might want to ask for your money back...
First, Clancy shocks the reader with a brutal massacre of a family, committed by a ruthless pair of drug thugs somewhere in the Caribbean. Sound familiar...
...probable chain of events follows, making the incumbent Republican President more frustrated with his country's helplessness. Eventually he decides to conduct covert military operations against the Columbian kingpins. Sound more familiar...
Unfortunately, things go wrong, and word leaks out about the covert action. With the election months away, the administration panics and decides to cut its losses, covering up the operation and abandoning its para-military groups deep in the Columbian jungle. Sound really, really familiar...