Word: tested
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trouble with most great comic figures is that they are desperate to be loved. Woody Allen has the opposite problem: people are desperate to love him, and that perturbs his essentially wary and austere nature. Every so often he makes a so-called serious film, as if to test his own integrity and perhaps that of his audience's feelings. When he does, astonishment and disappointment are his unfair rewards...
...Okay, guys, this is your biggest challenge to date. These games will test your fortitude, your mettle, your worthiness to call yourselves the Larries...
Bray recalls that one of his freshman roommates was caught stealing a sign during freshman week, and another was accused of following "improper test-taking procedure." In addition, Bray says, the entire room was Ad-Boarded for throwing a party that went out of control. "We were active kids," says Bray...
...President has called the Soviet dissidents the "unseen guests" at the summit, and his Administration has made human rights a crucial test of U.S.-Soviet relations. State Department officials note the surge in Jewish emigration and point with satisfaction to the even larger burst in Armenian emigration, which is expected to grow from fewer than 247 Armenians last year to more than 6,000 in 1987. By year's end an estimated 12,000 ethnic Germans will have been allowed to move to West Germany, vs. only 783 in 1986. In a pre-summit gesture of goodwill, Soviet officials told...
...America's European allies were aghast that the new Administration might renege on the 1979 commitment. They had a friend in court in Alexander Haig, the hard-charging Secretary of State who had been NATO commander in the Ford and Carter Administrations. He made INF a test case to prove that the new President could simultaneously stand up to the Soviets in the military competition and sit down with them at the bargaining table. Haig pushed for a negotiating position similar to that favored by the Carter Administration -- fewer Tomahawks and Pershing IIs in exchange for fewer...