Word: talled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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JUST AS Reagan has had an uncanny ability to define the political agenda over the last three years, he is going fortnightly about making himself the issue in the upcoming campaign. He's turned around the economy, he has America "standing tall again," and he's not going to let the voters forget it. Still, Reagan has to get enough people to pull the lever for him come November. Pollsters estimate that the incumbent commands a devoted following among about 35 percent of the electorate a larger base than either Gerald Ford of Jimmy Carter had at the time...
...Andropov. His full-cheeked, almost youthful face contrasted dramatically with the skeletal, almost alabaster profile that thousands had glimpsed while filing past his coffin. A sea of red floral wreaths followed, adding a brilliant touch to a procession colored mostly in drab grays and black. Then two officers in tall Astrakhan hats appeared, carrying the late leader's 21 medals, including Orders of Lenin and Orders of the Red Banner of Labor on red satin pillows. It was exactly half the number of medals that had accompanied Brezhnev to his grave...
...Julen, 22, the Swiss technician who won the G.S., was not unheard of, if one followed skiing closely. And Bronze Medalist Andreas Wenzel, Hanni's brother, was a star. The big roar of applause was not for Julen or Wenzel, however. It was for Yugoslav Jure Franko, the tall, good-looking G.S. specialist who won the silver, the first medal of any kind the Yugoslavs had ever won in a Winter Olympics. The 21-year-old Franko is less well known than Yugoslav Slalom Stars Bojan Krizaj and Boris Strel, who finished ninth and fifth, but Franko...
...Games eating two ice-cream cones at once. As the one-man Olympic team from Senegal, he suffers people's curiosity with a pleasant shrug. "I'm black and I'm a ski racer and I'm Senegalese and I'm tall, but I wish that I could just be a ski racer. I'm crazy about the downhill," he said. "It's a great feeling." Gueye finished 51st...
...rate Macintosh should be available to students late this spring or by next tall, administrators say (see accompanying article...