Word: ble
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Inside Sports article, titled "Trou ble in Paradise," was written by Freelancer Pat Jordan, a former pitcher in the Milwaukee Braves' farm system, who described his baseball experiences in the 1975 book A False Spring. He characterizes Cyndy Garvey in the article as restive at having to subordiate herself to her husband's stardom and to endure the loneliness of his lengthy road trips. "You can't even make love to your husband when you want to," she is quoted as saying...
...away with blood." Revenge has its undeniable satisfactions. It is a primal scream that shatters glass. But revenge is not an intelligent basis for a foreign policy. This century has already fulfilled its quota of smoke and rage and survivors, gray with bomb dust, staggering around in the rub ble, seeking what is left of the dead they loved...
...that was Houston, at least for a while. A part-time stint at the Houston Chronicle reminded him that he was a poor speller; when a better paying broadcasting job beckoned, he jumped. Once on the air, he managed to mispronounce words like heroin (her-oyne), variable (var'ble) and miniature (minichoor). Radio station KTRH gave him time to improve, and while there, he met his future wife, Jean Goebel, who also worked for the station, as a secretary. In 1960 Rather joined KHOU-TV, the CBS affiliate in Houston, and a short time later literally reaped the whirlwind...