Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...look with which she fixed Rumanian Ecaterina Szabo, 17, was memorable too as fortune started Szabo off on her best apparatus and Retton on her worst. They proceeded inversely until Szabo dismounted the parallel bars with relief and Retton came to the vaulting horse, her pet pony. A loud bear, Bela Karolyi, the defector who instructed Comaneci and Szabo and now teaches Retton and Julianne McNamara, quietly watched the team ceremony two days earlier and listened to his old anthem from a doorway. "I coached Szabo from the time she was five, [Lavinia] Agache from the time...
...abolition agreement described here can be seen as a mere holding operation, giving us time in which these good qualities [of courage, trust, prudence, imagination, decency, and love] can be brought to bear on the vast political work that alone can lead to a true and fully satisfactory resolution of the nuclear predicament...
...midnight hours; the squalid jail where you are held for days without charges; the brutal and degrading interrogations; the phony trial; the years in the forced-labor camp or maximum-security cell. If you are very lucky the nightmare ends with release, exile and the solemn duty to bear witness against your oppressors...
...daughters, a second-term county commissioner, she said, "When I was elected in 1978, I was the first woman in the area to serve on a county commission. I got 95,000 votes after beginning a race with 2% name recognition. The men I worked with could not bear to have eye contact with me. It was a lot for them to deal with." She smiled and looked down at her arms, at the goose bumps that will be every woman's memory of this year's Democratic National Convention, and said, "I am not the same woman...
...Third Age, a couple eagerly plan their retirement to a farm in Italy. Then the husband announces, "I've met somebody." The wife is stunned but ultimately agrees to live out their remaining years together, just as they had always expected. She finds the infidelity hard to bear, but not as shattering as her husband's lethargic confession that he has renounced his lover. In Rags and Bones, a woman buys an old tin chest at a junk shop and discovers within it a cache of more than 300 love letters. She spends a day reading them, vicariously...