Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there are to be new or expanded negotiations with the Soviets, the U.S. can at least approach them with a deeply divisive wound in its own western alliance healed. Or somewhat healed: the manner in which Reagan lifted the U.S. sanctions that had forbidden sale of American-designed equipment for the Soviet-West European natural-gas pipeline, even if it was made by European firms under U.S. license, touched off a nasty, though probably temporary, spat between Washington and Paris...
...district, 70% of whose voters had been represented by Heckler, to "acting out a speaking part in my own mugging." But he put together a highly effective organization that spent around $1.2 million and tirelessly denounced Heck ler's votes for Reagan's economic policies. Heckler wound up spending more than $600,000, but could not overcome the effects of unemployment in places like Fall River...
What I finally wound up concluding is that Wayne and Cintra just don't know each other that well at all, except for possibly a couple of conversations around the Eglin dinner table in Lawrenceville. Which explains, when you stop to think about it, why Cintra went and set her nuptials for the spring, like the story said...
American slang is fed by many tributaries. Feminists are busy networking-the liberated version of using the old-boy network. Cops, as sardonic with language as criminals are, refer to a gunshot wound in the head as a serious headache. Drug users have their codes, but they seem to have lost some of their glamour. Certain drugs have a fatality about them that cannot be concealed in jaunty language. The comedian Richard Pryor introduced the outer world to freebasing a couple of years ago, and John Belushi died after he speed-balled (mixed heroin and cocaine). Punk language has made...
...student government almost as unassumingly in the first place. When the student group drafting the constitution for the new government recruited participants from each House last year, announcements in Adams House newsletters had failed to attract a single interested participant before Smith volunteered at a House committee meeting. He wound up personally drafting the constitution's guidelines for funding, which he now finds himself following...