Word: wanly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...social programs. That may be necessary, but it will be far from sufficient. Reagan's aides figure the most that can be saved is $50 billion a year. Alternatively, Reagan tells his aides that the long-awaited recovery will stem the red ink. That is an equally wan hope: by one Administration estimate, an upswing that would reduce the jobless rate to 7% next year, which is far more of a boom than anyone dares to predict, would still leave a deficit of about $100 billion annually...
...Master Rusty spent three months compiling his collection, which his mother typed up. George Lucas, 38, the father of us all, approved the project, and that means the Force will be with it upon publication in November. How many legs does a Probot have? Four-but even I, Obi-Wan Kenobi, had to run the films through my Betamax for that one. As to the others, Luke, you must search out the answers for yourself...
...mind wandering at the plate."According to Rose, "That's not age, that's being in last place. I don't know if I could play now for a team that wasn't in contention." Yastrzemski says, "It's easy for your mind to wan der, to come back to the dugout from the plate and think, 'Why did I swing at that pitch?' More than the physical part, the mental part kept me working out in the offseason. I wanted to stay with it mentally so that if it turned...
...public appearance in nine days, the Soviet President stood for 1 ½ hours on the reviewing stand atop the Lenin mausoleum on Red Square to watch the annual May Day parade. Wearing a gray overcoat and fedora as protection against a drizzling rain, the 75-year-old leader looked wan and weary as he waved weakly at the tens of thousands of Soviet citizens who marched by carrying banners, artificial flowers, red flags and posters bearing his portrait. After the nationally televised ceremonies, some Western correspondents glimpsed Brezhnev painfully making his way down the steps from the reviewing area, supported...
...made his homages to the landscape of symbols. The most spectacular paysage moralisé in his work was the motif for two versions of The Jewish Cemetery, circa 1655. This gloomy landscape pullulates with symbols: the broken tree over the dark brook, suggesting a bridge across the Styx; the wan rainbow; the ruins, the air of desolation, transience and decay; and the crystalline, stony geometry of the tombs. Their purity interested Goethe, who would later design an abstract memorial for himself. "Even in their ruined state," he declared, Ruisdael's monuments "point to a past beyond the past; they...