Word: tat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swishy in her satin and tat...
Despite these seemingly impressive gains, it is far from certain whether Moscow's African strategy will succeed. In the past decade the Soviets have suffered setbacks almost as dramatic as their gains. After the 1966 coup d'état in Ghana ousted Kwame Nkrumah, Moscow lost nearly all of the influence it had carefully cultivated with that country. The Soviets were also badly burned by changes of regime or mood in the Congo (now Zaïre) and, most notably, Egypt. In Mozambique, Moscow has lost out to the Chinese: Peking has been more generous with...
Whitlam's mistake was to wage his campaign chiefly on the issue of his ouster. He claimed that the future of Australian democracy required that he be returned to office to void the Governor General's "legal coup d'état." In a brief paroxysm of rage over Kerr's action, strikers shut down slaughterhouses, construction sites and steelworks all over Australia. But before long, Australian voters decided that Whitlam's firing was not the main issue after all. Opinion polls showed that voters were more concerned about bread-and-butter issues-inflation, industrial unrest...
...tough guy on a Saturday morning long ago, and feeling what an intense character it was without knowing this was Bogie: any Bogart mania now owes a lot to that early Resh, I think. And it's a trip to see the original I-taut-I-saw-a-puddy-tat, I did, I did. Every theme, whether Elmer Fudd chasing down Bugs or Sylvester on the prowl, is hunted outwitting the hunter, of course, whatever that means...
...whole process of evacuation was beset by such disturbing uncertainty. TAT TAT CA DEN, MAY LANH VA QUAT KHI RA VE, instructed the sign on the bowling-alley wall at evacuation headquarters: "Turn off the lights, air conditioners and fans when leaving." It was an eerie notion that here, in an abandoned American bowling alley that had become a makeshift waiting room for thousands of desperate South Vietnamese, the light at the end of the tunnel was about to be extinguished at last...