Word: fading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bomb in the Israeli resort city of Tiberias in May 1979 that killed two youths and injured 36 others. Abu Eain (rhymes with plain) and his supporters have fought a 2½-year battle in U.S. courts against the extradition order, and the controversy refuses to fade away...
...Jackson is away," barked the TPA marshall. Bogart Jackson sauntered up to the ball, smiling at the memory of all the wayward three-irons he had hit on the practice range. Thwack, and Bogart Jackson was striding down the fairway, grinning at the knowledge that his characteristic fade placed him in an ideal position to go for the flagstick and had avoided the water on the right...
...such strained spots fade from importance next to the sensitive insight Domini nurtures in this impossible landscape. The devil narrator's most telling lines hide in throwaways, with the pretended unconsciousness increasing their force. "The one concrete proof of our changed relationship," he offers timidly, "...if indeed it is concrete proof, if indeed it was a changed relationship--is that Miplip and I became lovers." And when the "relationship" turns painful, "every single time I wondered if I could possibly survive (though how I got the idea that there is anything besides survival, I cannot imagine...
...Boston Celtics nipped the Detroit Pistons in a down-to-the-wire thriller, 115-114, on Larry Bird's reverse fade-away jumper with only two seconds remaining in last night's game at the Garden...
...with a take-it-or-leave-it proposition is hardly worth the plane fares. Although the U.S. has the offensive in the verbal "peace war," the burden is on us to secure an accord. The longer the talks last without any visible progress, the more the U.S. initiative will fade. The European anti-nuclear movement will begin to stir again, accusing Washington of stalling and being insincere about arms reductions. Critics here will charge that the "zero-option" was no more than public relations hype, and American foreign policy will once again have been frustrated...