Word: talese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are fewer tales of infighting and turf wars now than in the Baker days, and decisions come faster. "In the old White House," says a veteran, "people always had an interest in projecting their role in the decision- making process. It was a way of maintaining one's position...
There is one major difference between the elusive Andropov and Gorbachev. While KGB disinformers spread tantalizing tales about Andropov's taste for Scotch, Benny Goodman and Western pulp fiction, the former chief of the Soviet intelligence services remained the shadowy figure he had always been. Andropov, throughout his life, never...
Rebuffed by Alison and bummed by Ivy life in general, Gib, tantalized by his best friend lance's tales of a sexual sure thing ("Every relationship begins with a one-night stand") decides to head for the robust UCIA beauty. Since Alison is on her way to swap law articles...
Jordan's ordeal began in September 1983, when Christine Brown, a mother of five, complained to police that Garbage Collector James Rud had molested her nine-year-old daughter. Rud, who had twice before been convicted of child molesting, soon implicated Brown and a group of other citizens in tales...
Men of the farmlands know that. The land is a force beyond man's ken. In the 1920s Novelist Sherwood Anderson wrote of North Dakota: "Mystery whispered in the grass, was caught and blown across the American Line in clouds of dust at evening on the prairies. I am old...