Word: eves
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kwan still had not resumed her full training schedule. After a particularly frustrating practice session around Christmas, she asked Carroll, "Why is this happening to me?" And if physical pain was a burden, the psychological stresses were even graver. Self-doubt can never be truly exorcised, and on the eve of what would be a remarkable reconquest of the national title, Kwan was anxious. "I wasn't skating the greatest," she said. "I think I did one clean long [program] before the competition, and I thought, 'How am I going to do it if I haven't done so many...
...reason to submit himself to financial disclosures or give up the clout and freedom of private practice. He knew he could speak to Clinton whenever he chose, on any topic he chose. After all, the two men saw each other frequently for golf. The Clintons spent Christmas Eve with the Jordans and regularly visited them on the Vineyard in the summer. Says Jordan's friend Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation: "Public life can be a pretty high-risk proposition." But as Jordan is finding out, the private life of a fixer carries risks...
Both are also in that sad twilight of their life, when the body begins to betray even an indomitable spirit. When Castro addressed an election-eve rally on Jan. 9, all his 71 years were recorded on his face: a beard grown gray, deep bags pouching out below red-rimmed eyes, age spots dotting his forehead. His hands, always a forceful punctuation to his orations, jerked spasmodically. Rumors abound of strokes, Alzheimer's and other infirmities...
...with Eva, a visitor from Ireland, and after she went home, sent her passage money to return and marry him. For years he believed (as his best friend had told him, inventing the tale to protect the sanity of a fragile romantic) that she had died tragically on the eve of her departure. In fact she had married another man and used Billy's money to buy a gas station. This sad affair, which reads like a parody verse of Danny Boy, doesn't work as a reason for Billy's drinking. He was an alcoholic before meeting...
...Daily Spin "Are you priests? Confessors? Those are my intimate affairs, and I don't accept that you have me make that kind of public confession." ? Fidel Castro, on the eve of the Pope's visit, after reporters asked him whether he believes...