Word: stage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Administration still in power by someone who had been the President's right-hand man for two years and a Cabinet officer for four years would be of extraordinary interest," says Executive Editor Ronald Kriss, who edited the excerpts. "Most of the people mentioned are still on the political stage. That makes the book particularly sensitive." So sensitive that first-time readers, like Seaman over the Atlantic, can be excused an occasional outburst...
...truce in the G.O.P. presidential campaign, Republicans in North Carolina's Fourth Congressional District apparently did not get the word. A gathering in sleepy Franklin County to pick three delegates to the national convention wound up as the Battle of Louisburg. Fists flailed, noses bled, bodies flew off the stage...
Trouble started when the Bush forces refused to seat some Robertson delegates. "Fraud!" yelled Robertson Leader Richard Hines, triggering a rush toward the podium. As bodies tumbled from the stage, Sheriff Arthur Johnson, a Democrat, restored calm by confronting the factions with a personal point of order: "If there's any trouble, I will fill my jail...
...principal stumbling blocks to verification of the treaty dealt with U.S. demands to inspect Soviet missile containers big enough to hold only a stage of a rocket and the issue off how much access U.S. inspectors will have to Soviet missile plants and bases...
...guard against disruptions, security was tight; an evacuation plan had been prepared in which the show, if necessary, would have continued in a room behind the stage without an audience. But the onlookers remained relatively calm. That alone was an accomplishment. "Nothing was said that was new," noted Koppel. "But the very fact that ((Israelis and Palestinians)) sat down, even though there was a wooden wall between them, was a step in the right direction." And, for the sovereign territory of ABC, a television coup...