Word: spats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...harvest intruded on that lush prairie silence. Sitting in a cab 9 ft. above ground, Steffen steered his rumbling 1970 John Deere combine up and down the quarter-mile-long rows. Each ear of corn was picked, shucked and stripped of its hard kernels, and its denuded cob spat back into the field. Steffen, whose 420-acre farm is near Cropsey (pop. 90), thinks he is harvesting his best crops ever: perhaps 25,000 bu. of corn, 9,000 of soybeans. But that is not really good news. "If it goes another couple of years this...
...days. But the temptation has nonetheless lingered to pigeonhole the man, though to his credit Elvis no longer encourages it with infantile posturing. There was the soul-influenced Get Happy--E.C.'s testimony of allegiance to Black music. There was Trust and Taking Liberties and, of course, that much-spat-upon, thoroughly underestimated, straight-from-the-heart paean to Nashville and Elvis's love, country music--Almost Blue...
Despite their attempts to moderate the public spat with Washington, Thatcher and Schmidt still hoped to change U.S. policy. The British Prime Minister instructed Secretary for Trade Lord Cockfield to give notice that Britain is prepared to defy the Reagan sanctions in order to enable British companies to complete $200 million worth of Soviet orders for the huge natural-gas project. Said Thatcher to the Commons: "The question is whether one very powerful nation can prevent existing contracts being fulfilled. I think it is wrong to do that." In the same spirit, Schmidt announced that "like our European partners...
...America's European allies following the military crackdown in Poland. In addition, critics claim, she has not been a particularly adept U.N. Ambassador. Yet, as the only woman in the Cabinet and as the most prominent neo-Conservative in the Administration, Kirkpatrick remains politically valuable. Unfortunately, the spat between her and Haig not only diminishes the effectiveness of both officials but raises substantial questions about the direction and intent of U.S. foreign policy...
...advisers to the armed forces and state security apparatus. At a suburb outside Managua last week, a local resident pointed to some comfortable-looking villas under construction. "See those?" he said. "They're not for us. They're not for 'the people.' They're for the Cubans." He spat out the words...