Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sallying forth to get their profile raised by being on these talk shows. I'm not out there commenting every single day because I don't think this whole process of getting it behind us through an investigation is helped by all of the key players having a word on everything. I had a little combat experience in a world war. When the flak gets heavy out there, the wingman doesn't go peeling off and pull away from the flight leader, especially when the flight leader is known to the wingman to have total ability and a good record...
...there's no hiding out on my part, and no pulling away from support for a President who has been so fantastically good to Barbara and to me and opened up a whole new dimension in our lives, and in whose word of honor I have total trust...
...carries a battered briefcase, shuns neckties and favors turned-up-at-the-collar trench coats. His face is boyishly handsome, and his nose shows evidence of having stopped a few punches during a college boxing career. Not much given to small talk, he speaks in clipped, direct phrases. The word action crops up often in his conversation: "action officers," "action plan," "action" used as a synonym for operation. The word itself is an easily deciphered clue, for Lieut. Colonel Oliver North, 43, the man at the epicenter of the Iran arms earthquake, considers himself the quintessential man of action...
Serene. Instinctive. Visionary. Determined. Eternally optimistic. Such adjectives are regularly used to form a word picture of Ronald Reagan. They are all true, as far as they go. But each has a less sunny flip side, like a photographic negative of the bright, familiar image. Serene: intellectually $ passive. Instinctive: unreflective. Visionary: oblivious to troubling details. Determined: rigid. Optimistic: detached from reality and unwilling to wrestle with complex issues...
...more than enough to raise dread echoes of the word so often tossed around in hyperbole, so rarely in earnest: Watergate. The parallels might be exaggerated -- this scandal, after all, was announced by the Administration rather than forced out by the courts -- but they were there just the same. Once again there were rumors of documents being destroyed (by North and Poindexter). Once again the White House was resisting demands for a special prosecutor (now called independent counsel) put forth by Congressmen who did not trust the Administration to investigate itself. Once again congressional hearings were getting ready to launch...