Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bailyn was honored with the nation's most prestigious writing award yesterday for his book, "Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution," Which was published last year...
Passage in Peopling of America on the Eve...
...think I'm unyielding?" he asks Dean Garrett playfully, clasping a fist to the back of his center's neck. "No," Garrett answers sheepishly. "Am I unyielding?" he turns to Forward Daryl Thomas. "No, sir." It is the eve of the title game, and the press invites Alford into the discussion. Socks, shorts, one, two, three. "I've survived for four years," he backs off in a panic. "I've only got one more game." Indiana won it, 74-73, over the Syracuse Orangemen. Their perfectly competent but strangely insecure coach, Jim Boeheim, was slightly outflanked...
...trade sanctions against Japan in an attempt to protect American makers of microchips, it suddenly looked last week as if the U.S. and Japan were headed for what could become a major trade row. In fact, Tokyo TV commentators described the event with the phrase Kaisen zen- ya (the eve of war), an expression used to describe the days before Pearl Harbor. In Washington, U.S. Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter, while insisting that a trade war was not at hand, nonetheless called the confrontation a "serious dispute...
Haig has no geographic or ideological base of support. The support he does have is mainly among boardroom Republicans. One unlikely backer is Comedian Mort Sahl, who appeared at a Haig fund raiser on the eve of the announcement and later quipped, "I'm the head of Radicals for Haig in Beverly Hills." If nothing else, a Haig campaign -- with its promise of exuberant intensity and occasional mangled jargon -- should make for good copy...