Word: disappoints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greeted by large and enthusiastic throngs. The emotional high point came in Cracow, where he was swept up by the crowd and carried on shoulders two miles to the old city's Market Square. There he raised his hand and declared: "I swear that I will not disappoint you in that which we do and intend to do." The gathering of 30,000 responded with chants of "Walesa, Walesa!" and "Long live Walesa...
...crude," descriptions run next to each bird rather than pages away. Another innovation: hundreds of range maps, drawn by Peterson's third wife, Virginia, 54, that show breeding grounds and winter and summer domiciles. There are also dozens of ornithological changes, at least one of which should disappoint baseball fans: the Baltimore oriole, now interbred with the Western Bullock's oriole, is renamed the Northern oriole...
...cancer research, his run came to an abrupt end, more than halfway to his goal. Three miles outside Thunder Bay, Ont,, and 3,336 from his starting point, Fox began coughing and choking, with pain in his neck and chest. He bravely ran on, so as not to disappoint spectators who had waited for him, but soon checked into a local hospital for tests. The verdict: his cancer has spread. As he told reporters tearfully, "I've got it in my lungs...
...helped fulfill the unmet hopes of years past. Says Center Lorne Henning, who is one of two players remaining from the Islanders' inaugural season: "We've frustrated ourselves and our fans for so long. It's nice to feel that for once we didn't disappoint anyone...
...likelihood, the Northeastern women--now 11-4--won't disappoint the men. Although this is only the second year the school has featured a women's ice hockey squad, almost all of the team's players have been on skates for more than half of their lives...