Word: abell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...throws one curve and back on base Willie Harkissian, a wheeler-dealer before he even leaves the womb, is born with his twin, Ben. The agreement: Willie will have "what the world calls brains"; Ben will "get out of this cave first." He will play Abel to Willie's Cain, and also be a deadly left-handed hitter, deadly that when, years later, he slams a teammate's pitch into a dark summer night on a date, he hits Clare Bishop in the forehead and she goes into a coma...
...hour before a Soviet medic examined Nicholson; by then he was dead. The next day, an East German ambulance delivered Nicholson's body to a U.S. honor guard at the center of Berlin's Glienicker Brucke, the bridge at the East-West crossing point where captured Soviet Spy Rudolf Abel was exchanged for downed U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers...
...stranger simply to show that he meant no violence. The most important strangers to be courted with such gifts were the divine forces that brought rain or wind, hence the tradition of sacrifices left hopefully on an altar. The results of such efforts could be vexing. The Lord accepted Abel's offering of sheep but mysteriously rejected Cain's fruit of the ground, and Cain, according to Genesis 4: 5, "was very wroth...
...Lord, let him understand my Biblical references, and not say absentmindedly to Stockman, "Yes, the Reverend speaks words of wisdom--keep both Cain and Abel away from...
...General Abel did tell reporters that space shuttle Discovery will take off on Mission 51-C some time between 1:15 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. E.S.T. on a day no sooner than Jan. 23. But he refused to say what would be on board or how long the mission would last. He promised that touchdown will be announced 16 hours in advance, and that the press would be informed about any emergencies. Far more ominous was his warning that any "speculation" by the press about the mission and its payload could set off an investigation for breach of national...