Word: hides
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...south of San Francisco]. He's had some of the best of California so far." Joe agrees. "I do like California," he says. "No snow, no scraping windshields. In the wintertime back home, there's just football. Here, it may not even be football weather. You can hide a little better. People say it's boring, but I like it a little boring...
...denied that he had acted on Soviet orders. Even as he spoke, however, foreign ministers of the European Community were meeting in Brussels, where they adopted a strong resolution condemning martial law in Poland and blaming it largely on Soviet pressure. Jaruzelski's tough line could not hide the fact that his regime was in serious trouble. Deputy Premier Rakowski, who visited Bonn two weeks ago to explain the imposition of martial law to the West Germans, confessed to a private gathering of diplomats and journalists that the military coup had brought Poland "back to square one." He gave...
...much of Orlando's appeal lies in the sheer playfulness with which Sellars has approached it. Where the original staging calls for Zoroastro the magician to conjure up a fountain to hide a furtive lover, Sellar's project supervisor summons up a drinking fountain, from which Angelica casually takes a sip. In the conclusion of the original, when Zoroastro calls for a potion, he receives it from the claws of an eagle descending out of the sky. Sellars's Zoroastro receives his potion in the claws of The Eagle--the Apollo 11 lunar module, that is. (In both cases...
...aged. By 80, she had developed a good rule: "It's all right to swear, but not at people." Thus "Damn!" is fine, but not "Damn you!"; so is "Hell!" but not "Go to Hell!" However, my brother and I were permitted to say, "Damn thy hide...
...blunders." Adds Machinist Larry Self, a 16-year veteran of the union: "I don't think management is hurting as bad as they say. Why don't they go to the shareholders, and tell them they are cutting the dividend rather than take it out of the hide of the worker...