Word: ever
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short, America as a nation represents man's attempt to live together peacefully. While we should admire the men who risked their lives so that our nation could survive, we should regret that such events as World War II ever happened and try to learn their lessons, not revel in their glories...
...earn an estimated $5 million off the court this year. His list of corporate endorsements keeps growing: Chevrolet, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Johnson Products (personal-care items produced by one of the largest black-owned businesses in the U.S.), Nike. And last fall Jordan became the first basketball player ever to appear on a box of Wheaties...
Hackman learned a lot, the hard way, before he ever stepped in front of the camera. His father, a newspaper pressman in Danville, Ill., beat young Gene. "Though he left town when I was 13," Hackman recalls, "he'd drift back periodically to disrupt things. I was so shy that I never dated in high school. Sexual frustration, plus my unwillingness to live up to my mother's expectations or to be a father to my younger brother, gave me more than enough reasons to get out of town and join the Marines." His lone consolations were a doting grandmother...
...Prize. But there is something of the sideshow about her renown among the general reading public; she is widely recognized as the woman who turns out all those books, less often as the author of a single, unforgettable narrative. Thanks to her own energy, nothing she has written has ever been long-awaited...
...have been drawn, and a fresh draft of a unified constitution is almost ready for ratification. But past relations have been so rocky that skeptics doubt that the grandiose dreams of one Yemen nation can be realized. "I can't see how the north and this socialist government can ever be put together," says one veteran Western diplomat in Aden...