Word: break
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this reason, you must be particularly sweet when you reveal that striking workers did not load their baggage onto the plane. Tell them that they will get it back "soon," trying hard not to break out laughing...
...When you think of homers, you think of 1961, when New York Yankee Roger Maris hit 61 roundtrippers to break Babe Ruth's single-season record. Teammate Mickey Mantle hit 54. The M & M boys helped the Yankees shatter the team record for home runs in a season (240). While the Yanks were tearing up the American League, who led the National League in homers during the 1961 season...
Bernstein and fellow Post reporter Bob Woodward gained national recognition for their investigative reporting on the break-in at the Democratic National Committee in 1972 and the subsequent political scandal their revelations created...
...Eleanor (the normally perky, cuddly Bernadette Peters in sadly deflated condition) is a designer of funky hats who suffers from a possibly justifiable weakness of the ego. She lives with a graffiti artist named Stash (Adam Coleman Howard) who has a definitely unjustified air of superiority. Before they finally break up, this tedious pair go to many noisy parties and performance-art evenings. Along the way, art-world fights, flirtations and fornications are noted but not explored in a script that is always lumbering off up aimlessly false trails. Indeed, many characters are written so dimly that it is often...
...farmers, is treated worse than the others. He tries to kill himself by putting a nylon sack over his head. A more recent kidnap victim, Frank Reed, director of the Lebanese International School (kidnaped Sept. 9, 1986), attempts to escape but is caught. The guards beat him viciously and break his spirit, leaving him prostrate on the floor...