Word: stern
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Afghanistan. He spurned a specific French request to spell out a timetable for Soviet withdrawal. Overall, he made it bluntly clear that Moscow does not consider its continued occupation to be any of Western Europe's business. Posing with the Soviet diplomat for French television cameras, Giscard appeared stern and somber...
...Thatcher triumphantly moved into the Prime Minister's office at No. 10 Downing Street, promising "a new direction for Britain." She also cautioned: "It will not be easy." Right on both counts. Britain has undergone a sea change in government policies, and the British people, jolted by her stern conservative measures, consistently favor the Labor opposition in opinion polls. Last week TIME London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo cabled this assessment of Thatcher's first year in office...
...substantial prison reform is not easy to understand. Present building plans alone prove that stinginess does not really explain it. Real reform might save money, but it is as though the public remains somehow blind to the situation. Prison, after all, has become a symbol of society's stern feelings against crime. And most Americans probably carry in mind not an actual institution but a symbolic prison, a mythical place whose forbidding walls somehow protect society from the felons inside while training them for a return to society, a place whose very existence deters people on the outside from...
...Carbocraft's alignment would shift junior Matt Arrott out of stroke position, where he has been all season. Junior Olympian John MacEachern would move from his number seven seat to the stern...
...there during his life, mostly men, later using many of them as material for his books and plays. Here, Morgan's style becomes lighter and slightly disjointed as he skips from one anecdote to another. Visitors included Noel Coward, Jean Cocteau, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Gladys Stern, whom Morgan describes as "bursting fat." Morgan looks back to Maugham's youth, when he had to live in the unfashionable section of London and take the streetcar, instead of a taxi, to attend the smart dinner parties to which he was invited. In that young man he finds shades...