Word: three-hour
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...workaholic, Sadat slept eight hours a night, rarely awoke before 9 a.m. and insisted on a three-hour nap each afternoon. He avoided paperwork, preferring to deal with the broad picture and leave the details to his subordinates. He was so averse to reading official documents that when Cyrus Vance brought him Jimmy Carter's invitation to Camp David, Sadat asked Vance to read it to him aloud...
...appropriate, then, that in this three-hour TV movie she is impersonated by Jaclyn Smith, the Charlie's Angels alumna whom a PEOPLE poll designated "the most beautiful woman in America...
Later in the day, in Jerusalem's Shabbes Square, 10,000 religious militants staged a three-hour demonstration, protesting what they termed the desecration of graves at the government-approved dig. Leading the protest were members of Netorei Karta (Guardians of the City), a fundamentalist sect that refuses to accept the legitimacy of the Israeli state, and representatives of Agudat Israel (Union of Israel), an ultra-Orthodox religious party that joined Prime Minister Menachem Begin's new government a month...
...fellow socialist from West Germany. The two leaders agreed to continue their joint efforts to shore up the franc. Mitterrand pledged to continue the Giscard-Schmidt policy of simultaneously beefing up European missile capacity while seeking arms-limitation talks with Moscow. Said a broadly smiling Chancellor after his three-hour meeting with Mitterrand: "Franco-German friendship no longer depends on us personally. It has become an indisputable fact." Later in the week, however, Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson declared that the Paris-Bonn axis would not operate at the expense of other European partners...
...national events elicited pride even from some of the most cynical at Harvard. Students ended their three-hour finals on January 19 by scribbling "the hostages are free!" in their blue books. And Bok sent welcome-home letters to the two Harvard alumni among the group held captive in Iran for 444 days. John W. Limbert '64 and Elizabeth Ann Swift '62. Later this spring, Swift accepted an offer to become a fellow at the University's Center for International Affairs for next year...