Word: combatative
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yacht Marlin in Cape Cod waters. We also can ask ourselves if today's history might have been different had Carter been in the White House rather than aboard the Delta Queen churning down the Mississippi River when the Government began to get alarmed about the Soviet combat brigade in Cuba. In the Oval Office men seem to pause a second or two longer in their deliberations. If Carter had muted U.S. indignation, then had not had to back down later, would the Soviets have been so bold in Afghanistan? Some authorities think...
...petroleum paralysis.' He urged gasoline rationing to reduce America's dangerous dependence or Middle East oil. Said he: "I am sure that every American would prefer to sacrifice a little gasoline rather than shed American blood to defend OPEC pipelines in the Middle East." To combat inflation, he asked for an immediate freeze on wages, prices, profits, dividends, interest rates and rents. Repeating a metaphor he had used with effect in a speech to the Democratic mid-term convention in Memphis in 1978, he concluded: "Sometimes a party must sail against the wind. Now is such a time...
...members of supply helicopters, which could easily come under fire on the battlefield. The Administration has asked Congress to remove all statutory restrictions on assigning women and leave it up to the Pentagon. Out of chauvinism or chivalry, however, most Congressmen apparently oppose any possibility of women engaging in combat...
...lyrical. The novel thus seems a little too modest for its own good. It concludes with a conventional clinch, boy and girl returning to a real world now much nicer than before, that undercuts the stern logic of initiation and quest. Like many would-be heroes challenged in first combat, Hugh is wounded; unlike them, he heals easily. Despite this tentativeness, The Beginning Place demonstrates what readers of Le Guin's highly praised science fiction have known for a long time: she is as good as any contemporary at creating worlds, imaginary or our own. -Paul Gray...
...miracle on 45th Street," and, as miracles are measured on Broadway, it just may be. Whatever it is called, the struggle against the odds of Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine is proof that if enough people care about a play, they can sometimes combat negative reviews...