Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could be expected, ultra-conservative Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina lambasted the Administration's timidity, deriding Bush's entourage as the "Keystone Kops" and denouncing a "total lack of planning." More surprising were the Democrats who lined up to criticize the Administration's caution: in the past, many of them had espoused anti-interventionist sentiments in Nicaragua and toward the Navy escorts of Kuwaiti oil tankers during the Iran-Iraq war. Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts called the episode "a black mark on our diplomacy and our values." Congressman Les Aspin of Wisconsin declared, "We should...
...deadlocked City Council last night reversed the stance it took in August and blocked indefinitely a plan to allow Stop and Shop Inc. to create an ultra-modern supermarket...
...absence of ailing Councillor Walter J. Sullivan, the City Council last night temporarily blocked a plan to sell land on Riverside Rd. to make way for a new, ultra-modern supermarket...
That's quite a step for Clancy, who has managed to offend more than a few with his ultra-conservative, normally super patriotic politics...
...R.A.F. defenders fewer than 900 fighters. The opposing planes were roughly equal, the German Messerschmitts with a slightly faster rate of climb, the British Spitfires and Hurricanes more maneuverable. (The British also had some secret weapons: a radar warning system that the Germans greatly underestimated, and the Operation Ultra computer that broke most German military codes, particularly those of the Luftwaffe.) The outnumbered British fought with a kind of desperation that inspired Churchill to say of them, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many...