Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was no immediate word on casualties from the sinking. One official said earlier, however, that many of the sub's crew had been evacuated to nearby Soviet merchant ships. The sub normally carries about 120 people...
...pugnacious reformer. The clearest choice was in Pennsylvania, where Congressman Bob Edgar ran against State Auditor General Don Bailey; the claim of "real Democrat" flew like a shuttlecock. While in the House, Bailey had backed Reagan on some fiscal and social issues. Edgar, a staunch progressive, had the last word in debate -- and at the ballot box -- when he declared, "A real Democrat would have stood up to President Reagan and said no to those unfair tax policies...
...word for it in Japanese is ayamachi, diplomatic argot for a grave mistake, even a sin. Last week none other than Yasuhiro Nakasone, Prime Minister of Japan, committed a world-class ayamachi when he told a meeting of his Liberal Democratic Party, "So high is the level of education in our country that Japan's is an intelligent society. Our average score is much higher than those of countries like the U.S. There are many blacks, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans in America. In consequence the average score over there is exceedingly...
There was a light drizzle, but in Italy that is considered good luck for the bride. Only a week after word of their engagement leaked out, Designer Calvin Klein, 43, and Kelly Rector, thirtyish, an assistant in his firm, stitched the knot in a secretive civil ceremony in Rome. Why Rome? "I've never been before," smiled the radiant bride. The couple slipped quietly into the red room of the historic Campidoglio on Capitoline Hill and exchanged vows in front of the councilman for the city police. (The mayor sent his regrets.) Afterward, the pair posed briefly for photographers...
America's allies, who would prefer that the U.S. restrain domestic demand by cutting its budget deficit, jawboned back. European finance ministers and central bankers met on Sept. 21 at the Scottish resort of Gleneagles, and word leaked that the Europeans might intervene to prop up the greenback. The dollar thereupon rebounded...