Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This approach was pretty much what the U.S. had advocated, and the Soviets had rejected, last summer. Moscow at that time proposed bargaining about space weapons like Star Wars; the U.S. insisted any new talks would have to cover offensive weapons too. The Kremlin last week in effect agreed to resume the START (Strategic Arms Reduction Talks) and INF (Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces) negotiations that it broke off at the end of 1983, when the NATO missile deployment began. Moscow had long insisted that the U.S. would have to pull the missiles out as a precondition for new talks...
...Democratic Convention in San Francisco last summer, John Zaccaro stood proudly beside his wife Geraldine Ferraro, first woman ever nominated by a major party to run for U.S. Vice President. Privately, too, he was doing well; the couple had a net worth of about $4 million, stemming largely from his New York real estate business. But in the glare of the Ferraro campaign, his financial dealings came under harsh scrutiny. Last week Zaccaro was arrested and ushered into Manhattan Criminal Court, where he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge. An indictment accused Zaccaro of scheming to defraud during a deal...
...list is long: in the Philipines, Vice-President Bush calls unpopular dictator Marcos a "friend of democracy," and we continue to give the autocratic regime military aid with which it tortures civilian leaders in complete disregard of human rights and other freedoms we stand for. In Panama, this summer the military-backed dictator Nicholas. A. Barletta was declared president in a very questionable election, and President Reagan congratulated the "victor...
...Nancy Davis, suddenly the stepdaughter of a socially esteemed Lake Shore Drive surgeon, the Depression was a happy time of summer camp and nice clothes. She played field hockey and went on vacations with doting family friends; Actor Walter Huston was the most memorable. Nancy loved Davis, and wanted to be adopted legally. In the mid-1930s, during a family trip to New York, the teen-age Nancy tracked down Kenneth Robbins and had him sign away his parental rights. "He was my father, but I somehow never could think of him that way," she wrote in Nancy...
This is a book that is destined to be passed on to generations of sons and daughters who will thumb through it on sultry summer evenings after it has grown too dark outside to play any more pepper that day The Glory of Their Times so vividly captures the spirit of a nation and a national game that anyone reading it need not worry about ever forgetting the past...