Word: staggered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prime Minister stood fast last week. In a TV appearance from No. 10 Downing Street, she had scoffed at past governments that "have taken fright and cut and run" when the going got tough. Said she: "If I could only get this message over: I will not stagger from expedient to expedient...
...assault of Henry's script but there is little they can do to salvage any humor or grace. As the ambassador to the U.N., Harvey Korman (who deserves a film of his own) stands out as particularly funny; perhaps he adlibbed his lines. The rest of the actors stagger around poor sets under the weight of very un-funny lines, looking like they'd rather be out ringing doorbells for the candidate of their choice. The movie's music, written by John Philip Sousa, is its most redeeming feature...
...consumed by the free world's economy is vulnerable to terrorism, accident, warfare, or extortion," Joseph S. Nye-professor of Public Policy and a co-editor of the study, argues on the book's first page. "The sudden loss of Persian Gulf oil for a year could stagger the world's economy, disrupt it, devastate it, like no event since the Great Depression of the 1930's." It is a prediction he and his fellow contributors back up with some very scary statistics...
More than 83 million television viewers tuned in to Dallas three weeks ago to find out who shot J.R. Ewing. In an hour's time, they saw Ewing's accused attacker, Wife Sue Ellen, stagger around drunk and mourn her former lover. They watched a flashback in which Sue Ellen's comely sister Kristin fired...
...Boston, city officials will enforce emergency rules mandating carpools and one-way traffic on main arteries during rush hours. Major businesses have agreed to stagger their operating hours in an attempt to ease the commuter crush...