Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast, was the true athlete. In high school, I'd reveled in the pain of competitive swimming, and developed a distinctive way of discharging tobacco juice from between my teeth on the baseball diamond...
...book with a description of her mother as a wistful young woman from Artesia, Calif., whose childhood was painful. She put herself through college and became a schoolteacher in Whittier, Calif., where she caught the eye of young Nixon. After a long courtship, she decided to accept the diamond engagement ring he sent to her classroom in a May basket. And she has stuck by him ever since...
...topple the Luanda government have laid waste the countryside. Since the war began, guerrilla attacks and government mismanagement have combined to drive food production down by 80%; even in the fertile savanna plateau running across the heart of the country, half the children are suffering from malnutrition. Angola's diamond production, which once ranked fourth in the world, has plummeted by nearly 70%. Only the country's vast oil resources, including those controlled by Chevron Corp.'s subsidiary Gulf, continue to bolster the war effort. However, there are estimates that almost half of last year's $2.2 billion in total...
...Sandy Springer of Ashbey, Mass.: 6-ft., 2-in. "She has phenomonal jumping ability, Delaney Smith says. "She's our diamond in the rough...
...LIFE, Diamond...