Word: steams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marcos, who is popularly assumed to have ordered the murder of her husband. Many saw her as a veritable mater dolorosa. As devout a Roman Catholic as Chamorro, Aquino was irreproachable at the beginning of her presidency. The fearsome insurgency, led by the communist New People's Army, lost steam in the face of her saintliness. The military plotters who threatened to overthrow her were seen as thugs...
...JUNE. X was never like this. The first movie rated NC-17 (no children under 17) is as pretty as a French postcard but much less erotic. Philip Kaufman's biopic of authors Henry Miller and Anais Nin wanders through Paris boudoirs of the 1930s and finds smoke, not steam...
Vilified then as the man who imposed martial law in 1981 and outlawed the Solidarity trade-union movement, Jaruzelski gazed calmly from the sidelines last year as the revolt against communism gathered steam. He acknowledged Solidarity's election victory in June, and then won, with just a single ballot to spare, a parliamentary vote for a six-year presidential term. "As President, Jaruzelski has done practically everything that was expected of him," says Pawel Ziolek, a spokesman of the Forum of a Democratic Right, a coalition group. "Which means he did nothing to disturb the process of dismantling the system...
...crisis, although he says he has talked extensively with several of his friends in the White House and has written articles cautioning against the use of force. Still, Fisher's career, which has spanned the greater part of the past half-century, hardly seems to have run out of steam...
...been running a grassroots campaign since January and we've been building up steam since then," said Gene S. Trioli, the Spartichino campaign manager...