Word: winging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power stations have stepped up the eight-year-old civil war, which has claimed some 70,000 lives. The increase in military action guarantees further erosion in an economy that is afflicted with a 26% inflation rate and cannot provide adequate jobs for half the work force. Right-wing death squads have returned, undermining Duarte's curtailment of political murders and other human-rights abuses...
...whole period was thrilling, even though we felt desperate and scared a lot of the time. We organized a rally after the Cuban Missile Crisis. The rally was crammed with people. There were right-wing Cuban beating on the doors...
Despite the co-op's history of left-wing politics, many alumni now resemble preppies, not hippies. Their professions include psychiatry, building contracting, and teaching. One is a lawyer; his wife said he went into law to work for the good guys, but ended up working for the bad guys. Another man, who used to wear his long hair in an Indian braid and who was into Zen Buddhism, now recommends wine at the Ritz-Carlton...
...case, the American First Lady is ready to launch a counterattack. East Wing scouts have collected photographs of every site where the two women will meet, and Nancy has an eye on every detail -- from where to sit to be out of the wind to the color of towels in the powder rooms. It should be a meeting to remember. How will Nancy's homework compare with Raisa's recent English lessons? Will Raisa's hair, which was formerly hennaed in the salon of Moscow's exclusive International Hotel, match the brilliance of Nancy's, which is touched up with...
...vote yes. A group of Democratic Senators, miffed at Reagan's reinterpretation of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, has proposed an amendment that would prohibit any future President from reinterpreting the INF accord. But the largest obstacle to speedy approval remained the staunch opposition of a group of right-wing Senators led by North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms. One of Helms' more imaginative objections: that Party General Secretary Gorbachev, because he is not head of state (technically, President Andrei Gromyko is), had no right to sign the treaty...