Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...some officials in Washington, "Cap the Knife" seemed an odd choice. The expenditure-cutting ax he wielded so zestfully first for Reagan in California and then for Nixon in Washington may gather some dust at the Pentagon, where Reagan plans a huge military buildup. Moreover, Weinberger's firsthand knowledge of weapons and military strategy apparently is confined to whatever he picked up poring over Defense Department budgets eight to ten years ago; his current views on those subjects will remain among Washington's best-kept secrets until his confirmation hearings begin next month...
...firsthand how far some of these changes have gone and to hear of what might be in the offing, Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald led a number of Time Inc. editors on an eleven-day tour through four separate regions of China. The group included Editorial Director Ralph...
...huge protest march through Paris, thugs tried to bomb a Jewish-owned grocery store in Grenoble and bar in Marseille, and attacked dozens of Jewish stores and homes in the countryside. Says Historian Pascal Ory, a specialist on the French right: "The new generation does not have firsthand memories of the failure of Nazism. They can romanticize it today in a way that nobody could 20 years...
...space of little more than a week, an apparently unstoppable Iraqi advance had, in fact, been halted and transformed into a stalemate in which the Iranians were more than holding their own. Before the ban, TIME Correspondent William Drozdiak was able to catch the change in the war firsthand in repeated visits to Basra, and near Khorramshahr in occupied Iran. His report...
...Marne, from Belleau Wood to the Argonne. He sometimes wrings from familiar historic horrors memorable touches of contrary humanity. What was it like to listen to 8,500 guns, a sound that no human ear had ever heard before? For Winston Churchill, who visited France to see the war firsthand, the crescendo rose "exactly as a pianist runs his hands across the keyboard from treble to bass." For Private Frank Gray the thunder was "one roll, one roar, which never diminished and never increased, and which, indeed, imagination refused to conceive could be increased." After listening to a similar barrage...