Word: tails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...propaganda mileage--careful checking of sources, or holding off on the front-page headlines for stronger evidence is crucial to maintaining a credible press. As we all learned in high school, the press is supposed to be a "watchdog" of government, but it isn't if it wags its tail and licks Reagan's face every time he throws it a bone...
After the colt has rested for a few moments, but before he can "start making plans," Ray drapes the rope over the sorrel's tail and rump, under his belly, between his legs. "He's not afraid of his mane and tail," Ray says with a grin. "He was born with them. But he's not sure about me or this rope. It's natural for him to protect himself. In his world, he's not doing anything wrong...
...that ensued would prevent any progress on arms control or toward a Soviet-American summit. Instead, something quite different occurred. Movement on arms control increased, and so did hopes for a year-end meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. As a result, the dog seemed to wag the tail for a change: the desire to reach an accord on the major issues dividing the superpowers created an eagerness to resolve, as quickly as face-saving maneuvers would allow, the dispute involving the U.S. News & World Report correspondent and Gennadi Zakharov, the Soviet U.N. employee awaiting trial in New York...
QUESTION: IF YOU put the legislative branch of the U.S. Government in an automobile traveling west at 61 m.p.h. on a clear day with a 15 m.p.h. tail wind, would they have themselves arrested for speeding...
...rerecorded his hit Runaway for the show's theme) and an impeccable cast that seems to have emerged from the street, not a Hollywood casting call. Mann and Director Abel Ferrara indulge in few of the stylistic flourishes of Miami Vice but revel in the shadowy bars and gleaming tail fins of their seedy milieu...