Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baseball's past was grander, it is only because we don't remember it. Babe Ruth was traded. The Black Sox scandal was not fiction. And the Red Sox and Cubs have come closer to championships than a lot of other teams...
...Women Vs. Men" is another intriguing cut that, despite its content about fighting and misunderstanding, is remarkably seductive. The bolero style of the drums and and woodwinds lends a tango-like aura to the lyrics: "She had psychic defenses/He had animal dreams/They moved closer together/He said let's make a deal...
After 17 years of legislative struggle, the Gay Civil Rights Bill, being debated again today in the Senate as Bill H.5427, is closer to becoming law than ever before in its stormy history on Beacon Hill...
...Coach] Krass told me [Bales] was having trouble with low balls to her backhand, so I started slicing low to her backhand," Pollack said. "She was a hard hitter, and if I had tried to hit hard with her, it would have been a lot closer...
Forty years ago this Sunday, Mao Zedong stood on a balcony overlooking Tiananmen Square and said, "The Chinese people have stood up, and the future of our nation is infinitely brighter." Infinitely messier is closer to the mark today. The economy's course is uncertain. Provincial and municipal governments will surely pursue their own interests despite efforts to restrain them. The party, with its ideology bankrupt, offers only order and is begging for faith -- and not getting it. How long can a government like that retain control and stay in power? "A regime that . . . is forced to fire...