Word: witnessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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King knows all our secret terrors. His writing is crudely, squalidly effective, but affecting all the same. Witness his description of the narrator's pal finding the first stories he has written:
Thai Airways International Flight 620 was nearing Osaka, Japan, when suddenly a terrific bang in the rear of the plane sent it into a steep, rolling descent. Within minutes the A-300 Airbus had plummeted four miles, to 12,000 ft. Passengers were pitched around the cabin, said a witness...
Does this mean we are about to witness a long string of Administration defeats in Congress? No. First, in terms of sheer bulk, there is not much that President Reagan wants from Congress except to protect the gains achieved largely in the first year, which is a much easier task...
Because of the incoherence of the plaintiffs' claims, the only possible evidence for their sincerity was the determination the fundamentalist parents showed pleading their case in the courtroom. This boiled down to the determination shown by representatives like parent Vicki Frost, who stood at the witness stand for hours on...
That loudspeaker will amplify his thoughts on a range of issues, including the nuclear arms race. Reagan and Gorbachev ought to meet for a summit in Hiroshima, he suggests: "That would be a poetic way of dealing with politics." Uppermost, however, is Wiesel's role as a witness to the...