Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Canadians can keep their winnings tax free. An American would have to pay about half the winnings in U.S. taxes. Like most participants. Marc Lafleche of Montreal did not regret the week's wages he wagered. "Drawings like this are the only way the little guy can dream about a better life," he said. John Thome, 21, an unemployed laborer, can do more than dream. Thorne took his collection of 1,100 pennies to the bank, exchanged them for dollar bills and spent the $ 11 on lottery tickets. He was one of the ten second-prize winners...
Within hours of the opening ceremonies, one will be saying such words as "biathlon" again, and talking of Nordic skiing and the luge. A foreign language for Americans, who in a sense return to the Old World on these occasions, or a dream version of that world, to European movie kingdoms where athletes really do come from Liechtenstein. For 1984: Sarajevo. (Henceforth no schoolchild will be stumped on that
Though his teammates call him "Franny" (short for "the franchise"), LaFontaine is modest about his celebrity. "Playing in the Olympics is a dream come true," he says. After Sarajevo, LaFontaine will join the four-time Stanley Cup-winning Islanders; he could thus follow in Morrow's skatesteps as that rare athlete who wins an Olympic gold medal and a professional championship ring in the same year. "Gosh, wouldn't that be great?" whispers Superkid. "Two dreams come true...
...becomes the intimate - and the quarry -of dogs, cars and people. At last he re turns to his mother. "I wanted to discover the world," he explains. "And did you discover it?" "No, no ... not really; you see, I couldn't find it!" In Eve's Dream, plants display a variety of personalities, as they do in the tales of Andersen and Grimm. The rose turns out to be a miser able beauty with a catty voice. The chest nut is strong but egotistical; "The trees and flowers know this. When they are in trouble they...
...recall his youth. If only Steinbeck, an innately modest man, had been more modest as a writer, he might not have been destined to whipsaw himself between the pretentious and the trivial. It was his bad luck that he happened to be one of the last writers to dream, in all innocence, of writing the Great American Novel...