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...waiting for God. The Bible says, 'To you I will give this land, to you and to your seed, afterward to the end of time.'" Her blue eyes blazing, Miriam Levinger, incongruously clad in an army fatigue jacket, blue skirt and blue bedroom slippers, stood outside the former Hadassah clinic in the old Jewish quarter of Hebron. Behind her, in a stone building surrounded by barbed wire and patrolled by Israeli soldiers, Jewish women who joined Mrs. Levinger in her "occupation" of the building nearly a year ago hung up laundry under the basement arches...
...appeal, Carter said he understood their disappointment, but asserted that no matter what other athletes attend the Moscow Olympics, "ours will not go . . . the decision has been made." He hoped that alternate games would compensate, and even promised special recognition for anyone who attended. But in an informal poll afterward, only 29 supported the U.S. position...
Viet Nam War. Agnew was Nixon's rude political and press hatchet man. Both spoke in Texas for Bush. Afterward, Bush had some second thoughts and canceled film clips of the Nixon visit in his efforts to walk a narrow line between the White House and his ambitions beyond. Ever so slightly those first impressions formed that Bush was too cautious...
...weeks were filled with stunning performances, but two were truly memorable. The underdog U.S. hockey team conquered all with its boundless enthusiasm, typically playing its best and scoring the goal that put the game against the Finns on ice when it was shorthanded because of penalties. Afterward, President Carter phoned Coach Herb Brooks to say: "We were trying to do business, and nobody could. We were watching TV with one eye and Iran and the economy with the other." But even the thrilling hockey victory could not overshadow the accomplishments of a young and unassuming speed skater from the Midwest...
...Your back is killing you so much you'd do anything to get out of that crouch." Each race has distinctive elements of suffering. The 1,500-meter, for example: "When it's over, you cough up fluid from your lungs for a couple of days afterward. The 1,500-meter hack, we call it. I like the 1,500-meter the most, but I've got to prepare for the pain. The only way you can win it is by suffering...