Word: emptier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drafted No. 1 by the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association, what he called a "dream within a dream." The next day he made a lavish deal to wear Reebok shoes. On the third day, he died. No dream is emptier than death at 22, but the cruel death last week of Len Bias, the All- America from Maryland, got crueler. Cocaine was implied, maybe an experimental first taste. Friends considered even that unthinkable, but if the substance found in his car and system was cocaine, then in some dazzling order more rapid than a heartbeat, Bias must have...
...sweetener (not sugar, naturally). After the hike, instructors produce jugs of water, paper cups, sliced oranges and, finally, wet washcloths to wipe sticky fingers. As a refresher after bathhouse treatments, guests find cellophane-packaged blue toothbrushes--toothpaste already applied. Many find the week-long stay a real mind emptier. Returning home to Steamboat Springs, Colo., says Noel Hefty, 38, "I got off the plane, got in my car and couldn't remember how to drive...
...words had been written by Jaruzelski himself out of an obvious worry that his unseasoned young army might lose control of the situation. As Poles faced their bleakest Christmas since World War II, a dreadful stillness settled across the land. The days seemed colder, the nights darker, the streets emptier. The quiet was broken only occasionally, most often by the rumble of armored personnel carriers. But every so often, as it has for centuries, a familiar anthem would rise from some church, apartment building or worker's cottage: "Poland is not yet lost..." ?By William E. Smith. Reported...
...union's greatest problem is that most of its apparent gains, such as higher wages and shorter hours, are rendered worthless by the country's economic crisis. The queues are even longer - and the shelves emptier - than they were a year ago. Unless the workers scale back their demands, there seems to be little chance for national recovery. "If this continues, those who applauded us in August 1980 will be throwing stones at us," Walesa admonished at a Solidarity meeting in Gdansk last week. That would be a rude awakening indeed from the dream of odnowa...
...still leaving opponents faked out of their flannels. On opening day, the A's choked off a Minnesota Twins rally with the ultimate schoolyard sucker-play-the old hidden-ball trick. Martin's merry men helped mount the season's first major brawl, a bench-emptier with Seattle during Oakland's record-setting eleventh win. There is even a shortstop, Mack "Shooty" Babitt, who sprints to first base when he draws a walk and, occasionally, slides...