Word: earings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem with Kennedy's strategy, people whisper in your ear, is that it never existed. We've got a candidate who's two-to-one up in the polls and he's a Kennedy, organizers thought. Who needs a game plan? But as Carter's stay-at-home-and-manage-the-country tactics threatened to bury the senator's campaign, Kennedy's advisers armed their candidate with major policy addresses tailored to sharpen his attacks on the president and draw the media...
...almost every stick of furniture that could be found. Little remained in several buildings but smoldering ashes and blood and bits and pieces of what had been human beings. Some corpses were missing arms and legs; one lacked a head. Another had an iron bar through its skull from ear to ear. Still another corpse hung from a cell block ceiling, the word RAT carved on its chest...
Barbuda: The Gentle Isle. Nearly 75% of its 62 sq. mi. is beach: endless, empty stretches of white sand glimmering in the roseate reflection of billions of tiny shells. Barbuda (pronounced Ear-byou-duh), which has one of the Caribbean's few bird sanctuaries, also offers the area's best hunting: white crown pigeon, guinea hen, duck, fallow deer and feral boar...
...guards, the Olympic esprit, arising from the ideal of bringing the youth of the world together, still lives in the Olympic Village. A free game room filled with the latest in pinball machines and electronic games does a brisk business. TILT is an international language. A disco with ear-numbing banks of speakers and flashing lights is in full shriek at night. In the main courtyard of the Olympic Village, the flags of the I.O.C., the Lake Placid symbol and the 37 countries represented at the Winter Games, snap in the wind against a winter sky. Below, athletes hurry...
...office just have faces, but Vanessa "wore her long nose as if it were the mark of royal birth." Time must be spent learning to understand their odd way of bantering: "Daisy Valensky, you have the makings of a first-class bitch somewhere inside that glorious exterior." The untrained ear probably misses all kinds of nuances there. What to make of Daisy's typical dialogue: "Pants? What about your good black crepe Holly Harp pants?" Clearly, the only way to see Daisy as something other than a simp is to plunge recklessly, "fast as a leopard . . . passionate...