Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ironic that The Crimson feels entitled to pronounce on what is and is not ethical behavior. Where was ethical behavior when The Crimson saw fit to use a private contract stolen from private files as a basis for a string of news stories and commentaries last fall and winter, without revealing the source...
...dreams. In more than 100 of Alger's books for young readers, upstanding, hardwork- ing poor boys reached sudden and unexpected success by saving rich benefactors from terrible fates. But it turns out that Alger had a dream of his own -- to appeal to grownups. This July the Shoe String Press will publish for the first time Alger's Mabel Parker; or, The Hidden Treasure, a story of true love triumphing over mere monetary pursuits. Now in the archives at Syracuse University, the manuscript originally had a fate most unbecoming to a Horatio Alger story. Just before it was scheduled...
...image as president remains untarnished. They have yet to launch a sustained attack against Reagan the president. When Democrats dismiss Reagan as a "buffoon," they simply demonstrate their ignorance of the powerful changes in public opinion that helped Reagan win office and have supported a string of successes during his administration...
...breathless clip of events in the Philippines last week left President Corazon Aquino with little room for herself, both figuratively and literally. A steady string of tasks, from selecting a Cabinet and ordering up various commissions to greeting diplomats and receiving journalists, crowded her time from the moment the Marcos family fled. Malacanang Palace proved unsuitable to receive the stream of visitors because Marcos loyalists had seeded the grounds with booby traps and looters had laid waste to the living quarters. Aquino was thus forced to continue operating out of the Manila building owned by her family, which, with...
...were the enemy embracing the people and their flowers. Call that a revolution? Where were the heads stuck on pikes? Where were the torches for the estates of the rich? The rich were in the streets with the poor, a whole country up in flowers. In a short string of remarkable days a crooked election was held and exposed; a dignified woman established her stature and leadership; a despot ranted, sweated, fled; a palace changed guard--all with a minimum of blood lust and an abundance of determination and common national will. Not since 18th century France have Americans approved...