Word: rapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cleary agreed in dismissing the choke rap on the current Eagle squad, saying. "I hear that stuff all the time. But how can you fault the B.C. team? They played a helluva hockey game tonight...
...emphasis on loyalty and his failure to put his mark on policy cast him in the image of a solid junior executive. His conduct suggests that he has expedient political positions, not deeply held convictions. Bush understands the skepticism about his role and achievements. "You take the rap of people saying, 'Whatever happened to George Bush, the vanishing Vice President?' " But his No. 1 priority, Bush insists, is to stay close to Reagan. "If part of the price is to have people say George Bush is not doing anything, then fine, I'll pay that price...
...Academics has five stars; a quick check at the key in the front of the book reveals, as you expected, that five is as high as this scale goes. Social has three stars, which is vaguely distressing. Only average? All those parties and movies and clubs and rap sessions late into the night--that's a mediocre social life? Worse than Hartwick College, which gets four stars? Another quick trip to the key proves reassuring the social rating, it says, "is primarily a judgement about the amount of social life that is readily available. It can be assumed that...
...declared in Poland last December, Schmidt's criticism of the crackdown has been notably mild. The Administration, meanwhile, made little secret of its annoyance with the Chancellor's cautious attitude. One seasoned European observer predicted before the summit: "Reagan is going to give Schmidt one helluva rap on the knuckles...
...rap never came. In his 2½-hr. meeting with Reagan, Schmidt blunted the sharply critical approach that the President had planned with some disarming observations. He admitted that his first reaction to the Polish crisis was soft, but said he had not been fully briefed. Then, veering off the subject, he apologized for a West German vote on a United Nations resolution in December attacking U.S. policy in El Salvador. Most important, Schmidt readily agreed to endorse a formal joint statement that stressed his support for the American position on Poland...