Word: yearned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They're also pretty good and, of course, just plain pretty. Their just released Merry, Merry Christmas is a Yuletide celebration that sounds snappy while simultaneously evoking the innocent pleasures of mistletoe and holly. All the things that hard rap never is, but those 7 million record buyers apparently yearn for it to be: safe, snug and (if you listen close), just a little smug. This is one key to the Kids' success. Parents are perpetually sweating about rap-smitten, rock- blitzed offspring going to concerts and mixing it up with gold-chain snatchers and drug vendors. Little chance...
I.D.F. generals have been among the strongest advocates of a political solution. Chief of Staff Shomron told the Knesset that the I.D.F. could not eradicate the intifadeh because "it expresses the struggle of nationalism." But however much the generals yearn for a political settlement, they prefer to use every weapon available to fight the uprising without legal and political constraints. The army's job, Shomron added, is "to enable the political echelon to negotiate from a position of strength...
...such ambiguity on the menu, which starts with superior spring rolls and delivers reliably satisfying Szechwan main dishes. This is a far better restaurant than its predecessor, House of China, which wasn't bad. Only the sameness about the sauces keeps it from greatness, the greatness we so yearn for in the leaderless Mandarin-Szcechwan cuisine of today...
They are known as the boys -- and girls -- on the bus, but the TIME correspondents covering the 1988 presidential campaign have spent so much time on airplanes that they occasionally yearn for the pleasures of an overcrowded Scenicruiser. Los Angeles correspondent Michael Riley has developed a love- < hate relationship with Michael Dukakis' 737 campaign jet, which the press corps has dubbed "Sky Pig." "When it's 100 degrees on the tarmac, condensation on the inside of the plane creates a tropical rain forest in the aisle," says Riley. Sometimes the plane seems to fly about as well...
...many oppressed countries, those who yearn for democracy have no clear concept of what democracy is. What they do know is that their system has failed and their endurance and patience have been exhausted. "They know opportunities for the better have been squandered and that there is a key to success elsewhere," says Daniel Pipes, director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a non-partisan think tank based in Philadelphia. "But it is not clear what that key is, except that it means drastic change...