Word: put
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...What I say is just what you say to each other around the dining room table; but I'm the only politician who has the courage to say it in public." There is a rogue air of risk to his enterprise. Only those willing to risk obloquy will put his bumper stickers on their car, post his signs in their yard -- and so each such display becomes a kind of guerrilla statement. He revels in being attacked by "respectable" people. "The President of the U.S. attacked me ((when he ran for the state legislature)). The ex-President attacked...
...patiently tried to explain the matter to him. "Don't you see, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich, that if we form a military organization with some socialist countries but not the G.D.R. and Albania, we'll be sending a signal to our Western foes. We'll be telling them, to put it crudely, 'You are allowed to eat up Albania and the G.D.R.' We'd just be building up the appetite of the Western revanchists...
...That would be very stupid," I told him. "I know that if you think about it, you'll see the necessity for our decision." Fortunately, he calmed down. We sent in our troops. Budapest put up quite a bit of resistance, but it was all over in a matter of days...
...teenager was deported to Siberia. It was there, during three years of forced labor, he was struck by the snow blindness that later forced him to wear his famed tinted glasses. Only in 1944 could Jaruzelski return to Poland, and only then as a recruit in a Polish army put together by Stalin...
Wise too was ready to move. He was eager to shake the small-town dust from his shoes and gain entry to Denver's society. One of his first acts was to hire a public relations firm to burnish his image and put a speechwriter on the Silverado payroll. "I remember him standing up in white tie and tails and pledging $100,000 of Silverado's money to the Denver Symphony," recalls an associate. Chuck Henning, former executive director of the Colorado Savings & Loan League, notes that "Wise was image-conscious and was going through all the proper steps...