Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least in part, to neutralize the threat of a U.S. invasion of the island, which Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Cuba's Fidel Castro believed to be imminent. Despite the movement of U.S. air and land forces to the southeastern U.S. in the early fall of 1962 and the fact that an invasion was proposed to Kennedy as a serious option (he rejected it), McNamara insists that such an action was never in the works. But, he added, "if I were in ((the Cubans')) shoes, I have no doubt that I would have thought the same thing...
...novel, in fact, begins with a big bang: the blowing up, by Sikh terrorists, of a jumbo jet, Flight AI-420 from Bombay to London, at 29,002 feet over the English Channel. Two passengers, cartwheeling and conversing, plummet earthward. One is Gibreel Farishta, India's most popular movie star, who is in disguise and fleeing his fame after suffering a life-threatening illness and discovering in the process that there is no God. The other is Saladin Chamcha, a prosperous performer of voice-overs for commercials on British television, returning to his adopted land after a melancholy visit...
...were plagued with inexperience," said Captain Adam Weintraub, referring to the fact that freshmen and sophomores comprise two-thirds of the team. "We lost a couple close bouts because of questionable directing, also...
...truth of the matter is that while much in America is good, much is not. The fact that minorities, inner-city families, the homeless and the poor suffer gross social injustice, and that American foreign policy continues to perpetuate much evil abroad, means that the present order should not be saved...
...mile relay, an official pulled Jackie Ball off the track and away from receiving the baton because he miscounted the laps of the incoming runner, Co-Captain Elizabeth Ross. The official apparently thought Ross had one more lap to go when, in fact, she was finished...