Word: starkly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right. Then he told her what had happened. Since moving into the White House, she had accepted almost fatalistically the danger to her husband−the price that goes with a place in history. But this was the first time that she had had to face the stark reality. Outwardly at least, she was calm. "It is something you have to live with," she said. "I'm very grateful to the Secret Service and the great job they...
Daniel was stark raving and told Bridget he could be a hell of a man and she said oh can you and he said wait and see and she spread her palms and he pounced and she sighed and the night poured liquid and the water glowed liquid and the air bent in liquid waves of soundlessness and Gay broke the liquid soundlessly and went her own way. And she was gone...
...Califano, in a slow-growing economy, this country faces the prospect of satisfying new demands from one segment of society by taking away from others. That is terribly close to redistributing the wealth, something that the champions of liberal spending have talked about but never faced before in such stark reality. A lot of them are now finding cuts in Government more appealing than raises in taxes...
...buttocks labored while Kurt, now leaning closely over her, propped on one elbow, watched her closely but dispassionately, as he might have watched a conjurer explaining his tricks. And as she reached her climax, her head cleared of all its confusions and she emerged into a world as stark and white as the walls of her hospital room. That's it, she thought. That...
...public relations officer confronted with botulism in the vichyssoise. The first thing Charles Daly must have thought of when he stumbled on the Identimat machines was a grim features page in The New York Times: the irresistable headline, "Nineteen Eighty Four Arrives at Harvard," and the inevitable stark photograph of gaunt, sallow-faced summer school students fining up at the Union to be processed by the machine. In any case, Harvard's vice-presidents went into a quick huddle and came out reaffirming the sovereignity of our palm prints...