Word: calles
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tolmie survived two match points in the tiebreaker, making incredible shots under pressure to knot the score at six-all. He was actually helped by a questionable line call by Benefield. The crowd responded in audible disbelief leading Benefield to reverse his call. The incident seemed to shake his concentration, allowing Tolmie to capitalize and take the tiebreaker...
...guess I got kind of lucky." Tolmie said. "He was kind of upset about that call...
Users of the new Mac (estimated price: $6,000 or more) will have to develop their biceps to handle the machine, which weighs about 16 lbs., compared with 4 lbs. for small IBM-compatible portables. Apple is taking pains to call the machine a portable rather than a laptop, but computer-industry wags have already dubbed it a "luggable." Even so, experts believe the Mac is likely to be a walkaway success...
Honecker and his colleagues are well aware that theirs is a rump state, legitimized only by the practice of what they call socialism. Hungary and Poland could dilute their socialism and still remain ethnic and national entities. But such experiments in East Germany, its leaders fear, would simply hasten the swallowing of their state by the larger Federal Republic next door. In the well-noted words of senior Communist Party ideologist Otto Reinhold, "What reason would a capitalist G.D.R. have for existing next to a capitalist Federal Republic? None, naturally...
...America they call it baseball. In Japan it's pronounced besuboru, but the form of the game in both countries is identical: umpires, nine players, walks, strikeouts, double plays and, of course, home runs (homu ran). Aside from a few quirky exceptions -- ties are permitted after twelve innings -- the Japanese play baseball by American rules. It's been that way since 1873, when the game was introduced in Japan and soon became the national obsession as well as the national sport. Yet as journalist Robert Whiting notes in his new book You Gotta Have Wa (Macmillan), the style and, most...