Word: things
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1990
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Souter had barely left the podium in the press room of the White House before Republican Party officials were raising "the 50-year-old bachelor thing," which was widely interpreted as a way of introducing speculation that Souter is homosexual. In fact the question has been dealt with twice: once in 1978, when Souter was about to be appointed a superior court judge, and then again in 1983, before he was named a state supreme court justice by then Governor John Sununu. During law school, he went out with Ellanor Fink, a student at Wheaton College. After he became...
...personal style gets mixed reviews. What some call confidence others call arrogance. The one thing few dare to call him is Fernando; the President dislikes being addressed by his first name. Collor, says his chief of staff, Marcos Coimbra, "is secure, responsible, determined." Others charge that Collor is too autocratic. Says Herbert de Souza, who runs a left-wing think , tank in Rio: "He's like a doctor who tells us he's going to cause us the maximum pain and suffering, but it's for our own good...
...bandit will have none of it. "That's none of your business," he sneers. "I say he's going there, and there ain't a darn thing you can do about...
...stopped requesting QSL cards when I was about 13, and the stations from Western democracies promptly stopped responding. But the stations from Communist nations knew they had a good thing going, and wouldn't stop writing. Up until last year, I still received my annual Bulgarian tassles and Chinese wall calendar...
Bush has none of these qualities. His rhetoric is small timbre, a church- basement upright, not a concert grand. He is identified with no lifelong, strongly held principles or prejudices. And since he hasn't been telling us the same thing for years on end, he can't have the pleasure of telling us now, "I told...