Word: successional
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But Weinberger may find the going tougher than usual on Capitol Hill, where discontent is growing even in precincts normally friendly to the Pentagon. House Democrats ousted Arms Services Chairman Melvin Price of Illinois, an aging and pliable hawk, and replaced him with Les Aspin of Wisconsin, a maverick who...
Bobby Giaquinto's wife is "a soft, pale girl who bruised easily and feared penetration." As compensation, he brings a succession of sad, passionless women to his office, and there on the couch Bobby proceeds to make sad, passionless love. Between affairs, the magazine writer cranks out puff pieces about...
President Konstantin Chernenko, 73, was conspicuously absent from the funeral ceremonies; his doctors had apparently advised him to stay out of the cold. Later in the week he made an appearance at a Kremlin awards ceremony. In his absence Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev, 53, and Romanov, the most likely candidates...
Not surprisingly, the series has inherited some of the book's shortcomings. As leisurely and sinuous in its flow as the Ganges, sometimes crashing through rapids, more often meandering into tributaries, Jewel does on occasion get bogged down in its own complexities. In the middle episodes, when the action...
According to records of the California department of fish and game, over the past 30-odd years there have never been so many shark assaults off the U.S. in such quick succession. Between 1950 and 1955, sharks attacked a total of three people in the U.S. Pacific; in the past...