Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...people who are "getting everything" are nowhere to be seen among the picnickers. The only blacks visible wear the Day-Glo blazers of parking attendants. In fact, the prosperity of Duke's supporters is a point of pride to the campaign aide who asks me, "Do these people look like piney-woods rednecks...
...book's thesis is stark: "The manipulation of America's political and economic system by Japanese and other foreign interests has reached the point that it threatens our national sovereignty." What distinguishes Choate from other recent critics of Japan is that he is, at the core, a moralist; to him, the avidity with which former government officials are willing to work for foreign interests symbolizes the erosion of America's "civic virtue." His is a critique of the familiar, entirely legal, Washington revolving door, recast in patriotic terms...
...that time in charge of cadres for the Moscow party organization, as his witness, saying now that he was the one who had told him that I was really a Pole. Malenkov too denied he had said anything of the kind. The hunt for Poles had reached the point that Stalin was ready to turn Russians into Poles...
...events did not develop in our favor. The powerful economy of the U.S. prevented the devastated economies of the European countries from reaching the flash point of revolutionary explosion. Things did not happen the way we expected in accordance with Marxist-Leninist theory. Unfortunately, all these countries stayed capitalist, and we ended up being disappointed. We concentrated on the consolidation of the gains of socialism in the fraternal countries of Eastern Europe...
Cheney blew up after reading on-the-record comments that Dugan, in office only 79 days, made to Washington Post and Los Angeles Times correspondents accompanying him on a week-long trip through the Middle East. Dugan, a West Point graduate, talked in considerable detail about classified operational plans, including the use of Saudi bases for American B-52 flights in wartime and training routines for the supersecret F-117A Stealth fighters. In comments deeply distressing to America's allies, Dugan advocated bombing Iraqi cities --including downtown Baghdad--and said, "I don't expect to be concerned" about political constraints...