Word: invention
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what they did. They had gathered only to consider some possible improvements in the Articles of Confederation, which the 13 rebellious colonies had agreed to in 1777 but which had clearly failed to establish an effective national Government. Neither Congress nor anyone else had authorized the delegates to invent a whole new political system...
...laudable aspiration, perhaps, but one which the Administration sought to achieve through manipulative means wholly in contradiction with fundamental American values about honesty and forthrightness in government. Making matters more repulsive was a report a few weeks later which showed that the Administration doctored the evidence it did not invent implicating Khadaffy in the bombing of a West German disco the year before which led to the death of an American soldier and the U.S. bombing of Tripoli...
...shows it like his relationship with women. Here you have a man who is asking you to trust him with your bank account, your children, your life and your country for four years. If his own wife can't trust him, what does that say? The press doesn't invent stories about the sexual peccadilloes of candidates. Hart asked to be followed around because it was already an issue...
Take "See You In Paradise. "Not only is that the sort of title a hippie mystic like Morrison would invent, but the opening piano chords mimic the Irish guru's "Bright Side Of The Road" with no mean precision. Similarly, "First Time," a rave up with some inspired drumming, sounds like it was written after a careful analysis of "Wavelength," and "Celtic Ballad" could be a cut on any one of Morrison's albums...
...would Durenburger invent tales of US spying in Israel? Durenberger has gained nothing by his public disclosures, and must have realized how much they would cost him. On Capitol Hill, his fellow Republicans are outraged that Durenburger's remarks will make it appear that they sought to cover up illegal intelligence operations. The people who like to argue--and there are a lot of them--that spying should be left to the professionals and that the public's elected representatives should leave well enough alone don't like the Minesota Republican very much, either...