Word: eves
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After eluding authorities for nearly a month, two convicted murderers who escaped on Halloween from the Bridgewater, Mass., Correctional Center were captured in East Cambridge on the eve of Thanksgiving...
...Presented by the Huntington Theatre company to benefit Globe Santa. $22-$39. 264 Huntington Ave., Boston. Call 931-ARTS for tickets. Forever Plaid. Indefinite run. In Stuart Ross's tribute to the "guy groups" of the '50s and '60s, the Plaids, a semi-pro harmony group killed on the eve of their first big-time gig, have come back from the dead to croon their tunes. Boston Park Plaza Hotel, 64 Alington St., Boston. Call 357-8384 for more information...
...Margaret Thatcher told Bush on the eve of the Gulf War, now is not the time to waver. This time, however, the enemy is not some megalomaniac dictator, but the tyranny of American public opinion...
...years become America's perennial deus ex machina, perpetually in motion, sweeping in to lift up spirits befuddled by modernity. When Presidents need to pray, it is Graham whom they call; he ministered to Dwight Eisenhower in the White House, spent the night with the Bushes on the eve of the Gulf War. Richard Nixon offered him the ambassadorship to Israel at a meeting with Golda Meir. "I said the Mideast would blow up if I went over there," Graham recalls. "Golda then reached under the table and squeezed my hand. She was greatly relieved." When Billy arrived...
...conversation, this veteran adman offered me a few words of friendly advice. "Forget Tiffany," he said. "Buy your wife her jewelry on 47th Street." He was referring to the world-famous diamond district, which is the epicenter of the wholesale jewelry trade. Now each year, on the eve of my wedding anniversary, I shop amid the tiny booths of 47th Street. I will admit that the whole experience still fills me with apprehension. Each time I contemplate a purchase, I can imagine the off-price jeweler later boasting, "You won't believe what I just sold to that bald...