Word: timedance
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Last week the trial of a non-dissident was timed by the Soviet authorities to coincide with the court cases against Shcharansky and the other human rights activists. The defendant was an office worker named Anatoli Filatov, who was charged with high treason. Tried by a military court, he was...
When Cy Vance tells me to shut up, I'll shut up." So said Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young early in 1977, as he embarked on a policy of open-mouth diplomacy that featured a number of ill-timed and poorly conceived outbursts. Last week, following his...
*Proxmire also claimed that Miller was not expert enough in financial markets. In fact, Miller had been a director of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank for seven years, and FORTUNE judged him "a whiz" at managing Textron's pension funds. In early 1974 he took management of those funds away...
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who as an astronomy student at Cambridge University in 1967 noticed the precisely timed signals from what were later identified as pulsars.
Princess Anne, 27, Charles' sister, has also piqued the public lately, although on much less serious grounds. A petulant young woman, she stunned a photographer not long ago by spitting out four-letter vulgarities precisely timed to the clicks of his motorized camera. She alienated some of her Gloucestershire neighbors...