Word: worriedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is an administration concerned with such public perceptions. What to do about Quayle, they worried, eyeing the 1992 presidential election. The only other alternative--dropping Quayle from the ticket--would be evidence that Bush's first decision as a candidate was a bad one.
American troops faced a tough battle to restore order in Panama City, where looters, some reportedly shouting, "Viva Bush!" ransacked stores and homes and where Noriega's misnamed Dignity Battalions, a paramilitary force, were putting up a street-to-street fight. Noriega's loyalists, apparently at his direction, staged hit...
Since his selection as party chief in 1985, Gorbachev has exceeded both the hopes of those who longed for reinvigoration and the fears of those, no doubt including comrades who voted for him, who worried that he would jeopardize the power and privileges of the elite. He has been a...