Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does, maybe it will take the sting out of Reagan's decision to snub the festivities. President Andrew Jackson paid a visit to Harvard's 200th birthday party in 1836, President Grover Cleveland stopped by for the 250th celebration in 1886, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 took part in the Tercentenary Celebration in 1936. With Harvard men Donald T. Regan '40 and Caspar W. Weinberger '38 among his inner circle of advisors and planning to attend the ceremony themselves, 350th bigwigs counted on Reagan's appearance at Friday morning's convocation on "The University in a Changing World...
...blow, when it finally fell, was unexpectedly jarring. Despite years of agonized Western debate about combatting terrorism, months of mostly fruitless diplomatic maneuvering, weeks of U.S. warnings and finally days of ominous public silence, the world still seemed unprepared when the bombers struck. Although Libya had felt the sting of the Sixth Fleet over the Gulf of Sidra just three weeks before, the principal buildings and the minarets of the central mosque in Tripoli were bathed by floodlights, providing a beacon for U.S. pilots. Under cover of darkness, 13 F-111 fighter-bombers flying out of Britain, joined by twelve...
...Africans will have to carry, could mean the same old restrictions under a smoother-sounding name. Said Bishop Desmond Tutu, who last week was elected Archbishop of Cape Town, making him the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa: "I hope there is not a sting in the tail. One has to be very careful that they are not going to find another way of harassing blacks...
Meanwhile, back in Ghana, Blay-Miezah is in detention as government authorities investigate the sting. A loyal investor, New Jersey Businessman Walter Hajduk, says he visited Blay-Miezah in a government compound, where the Ghanaian urged him to tell officials that, if set free for seven days, he could travel to Europe and prove that the trust exists. If he failed, Blay- + Miezah told the investor, the authorities could shoot him. Hajduk would like the Ghanaians to take Blay-Miezah up on his offer. Should Blay-Miezah prove to be a liar, says Hajduk, "I'll put the bullets...
...music takes over, Kate Bush, Rickie Lee Jones, Sting and Madonna help to steal the show. However, the sets don't match the fullness of their music. While some of Keshishian's visual innovations are fun, too many of the numbers are performed against the starkness of a white backdrop...