Word: watered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...days are "bipartisanship." That tender word is part of the vocabulary of the honeymoon between a new Congress and a new Administration, especially when the pillow talk turns to foreign policy. It is meant to conjure up the happy image of Republicans and Democrats hand in hand at the water's edge. Actually, the word is doubly misleading, both in its evocation of the distant past and in its implications for the near future...
...contraband chemicals are not all from the U.S., or even from other industrialized nations. Much of the ethyl ether was manufactured in Brazil. The potassium permanganate, normally used as a water purifier, came from China, which is the world's leading producer...
...asked by unsuspecting guides to videotape a hunt during which 13 hunters slaughtered 204 birds (139 over the limit for that group). When a guide yelled to spook hundreds of geese clumped together in a pond, hunters fired blindly into the rising cloud of birds. After the fusillade, the water was littered with dead and wounded snow geese...
Nassau has (in no particular order) great clubs, great beaches, great music, great casinos, nice people, exciting water sports and several thousand other college students looking for fun. A recipe for the week of your life...
...just Georgetown. The 9:30 Club in downtown D.C. features a wide variety of bands, from the polka band Das Furleines to the Pogues. Dancers will find a strange home at Tracks, the club where Washington's gay community meets its straight, and where the Old Milwaukee flows like water...