Word: veils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest share of the French vote, nearly 43%, went to the center-right opposition, which was united under the leadership of Simone Veil, a Minister of Health under former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. Yet, despite the center-right's cries of victory, there was uncertainty over how to deal with the far-right National Front, which shrilly advocates old-fashioned morality and the return of France's 4.45 million immigrants to their countries of origin. The center-right fell well below the magic 50% that would have allowed it to boast that it represented...
...captain's cabin. It did nothing for our nerves to hear a BBC report that our ship had supposedly been hit. Later, an Iranian official paid us a visit, accompanied by three Islamic guards in military fatigues. I was dressed in black, but the Iranians insisted that a veil of some sort be found for me. There was nothing suitable on board. Finally, the captain rushed to his bathroom and returnedwith a white bath towel, which I had to struggle to keep over my head during the interview. When asked what Iran would do if Iraq destroyed Kharg Island...
...poster behind the defendants. It reads: "England is worse than the U.S., but the Soviet Union is worse than both of them." Now tell me, how can England be worse than "the Great Satan"? A friend suggests that perhaps it is because Margaret Thatcher refuses to wear the veil...
...veil of secrecy is drawn so tight that not only is it impossible to reconstruct the events of the past, but even to reveal the existence of a debate about the meaning of those events....One does not expect...university presidents to adapt Orwell's memory hole" to the governance of universities...
...registered Democrats and Republicans differ only slightly on specific issues. Instead, it apparently in Reagan's charisma that accounts for much of his strong support. Most of the press has been preoccupied with Reagan's mystique in general;, his undeclared candidacy in particular. Now that Reagan has discarded his veil of secrecy and declared himself a candidate, he should be judged...