Word: weathered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the Senate vote was long expected, the House leadership's original plan was to weather the storm of public protest and let the pay raise take effect. Then, to lessen the political damage, they planned action on a bipartisan package of reforms including an honoraria...
Rarely if ever in 200 years has there been such an affectionate farewell from the nation and from the White House staff, such a graceful and rancorless transfer of authority and such pageantry unmarred by national turmoil or brutal winter weather. It was a class act from the President and his lady, in its own way one of the hardest things the two old troupers ever...
...edged over to the White House windows to look down the South Lawn, over the fountains and past the Washington Monument, on to the Jefferson Memorial, where the bronze figure of the great Virginian stands resolutely. Often when Reagan came to work he would offer his assessment of the weather, determined by how clearly he could see Jefferson in the Potomac River Valley. In the finale, Reagan loitered more than ever in his private study next to the Truman Balcony, often with Nancy beside him and a fire burning in the fireplace. Once, when an aide found him in reverie...
...ongoing excavation is one of the few tourist sights in Italy with regular hours these days. Five days a week, fair weather or foul, the team is out shoveling and charting its discovery. A miniature Bobcat bulldozer shovels dirt around in one section, while in another, workers gingerly remove dust from rocks with tiny brushes. "Everybody stops to take a look," says De Marinis. "People yell all kinds of questions. Mostly they ask us what's new. But usually it's the foreigners; for Florentines, it's more a pain in the neck...
...initial Nanjing fracas, some 140 African and other foreign students were held under protective guard at a guesthouse for ten days. On Dec. 31, provincial authorities sent paramilitary police into the guesthouse to arrest "ringleaders" among the Africans. Armed policemen allegedly herded coatless students outside in zero-degree weather, then pummeled them and jabbed them with electric cattle prods...