Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That was the dream. Instead, the morning after I stayed with Christopher, he left me doing the breakfast dishes while he went off to spend New Year's Eve in New York with another woman...
When God foreclosed on Eden, he condemned Adam and Eve to go to work. Work has never recovered from that humiliation. From the beginning, the Lord's word said that work was something bad: a punishment, the great stone of mortality and toil laid upon a human spirit that might otherwise soar in the infinite, weightless playfulness of grace...
...Christmas Eve 1980 in the fishing and manufacturing city of Wuxi. As in 40 other Roman Catholic parishes in China, the local church is being rededicated after having been shut down for more than a decade. But because Chinese Catholics have been cut off from liturgical changes brought about by the Second Vatican Council, the crowd of 3,000 parishioners celebrates the Mass in Latin. The ceremony ends outside in true Chinese style with a crackling flare of fireworks lighting up the night...
...Harvard graduate himself, Fish once played on both of the teams he now coaches. He vividly remembers when the Palmer Dixon Courts were just a twinkle in a rich alumnus's eve. As a player he learned first hand the teachings of the legendary racquet master Jack Barnaby. Because he's been there. Fish understands better than most the unique triumphs and traumas of the Harvard athlete...
...parliamentary commission had recommended legalizing the farm union ealier in the week, but last-minute quibbles delayed the agreement for three more days, and tensions began to rise. On the eve of the signing, 100 farmers took over a municipal building in nearby Inowroclaw, not unlike the 100 or so other protesters who had already been occupying the Bydgoszcz headquarters of the government-controlled United Peasants' Party for a month. The breakthrough finally came when peasant leaders agreed to refrain from staging new protests and to recognize the leading role of the Communist Party in their forthcoming charter. Nonetheless...