Word: baskets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mandalay and the "pagoda-studded plain of Pagan" lies a 27-hour boat trip down the Irrawaddy River. We had a choice between "cabin" and "deck" and for an extra dollar chose the cabin. Well, the deck looked like steerage, every square inch filled by a body or a basket of smelly goods. The cabin, however, was not much better. It consisted of three wooden bunks and a table, and we shared it with a wealthy Burmese family, their electrical appliances, and eight or nine monks with shaven heads and long orange robes...
Many historians believe that Stalin engineered a famine in 1933 in an attempt to break the back-bone of the nationalist-minded Ukrainian peasantry, causing the death of seven million villagers. Despite a relatively normal harvest in Ukraine--considered the Soviet Union's bread-basket--Soviet officials ignored signs of mass starvation, scholars say, requiring nearly all foodstuffs to be exported outside of the republic...
...contact with the rim, no squaring up to the basket, no firm grip on the ball. No swish...
...miracle," Lakers Coach Pat Riley said. "He didn't even see the basket. You just can't beat fate...
...that breathless moment, some of basketball's greatest players watched the ball bounce around the rim and it didn't matter how the ball had gotten to the basket--only whether or not it would...