Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Manuel Rose, a 68-year-old retiree with an artificial leg, was cheerfully watching a baseball game on television in his second-floor South Boston apartment when a man with a familiar face burst through the door. "What the hell are you doing here?" asked Rose as Ray Flynn, the mayor of Boston, picked him up and hauled him out to the street. What was going on? Hizzoner, it seems, was playing basketball nearby when he spotted flames emerging from Rose's home and rushed to the rescue...
...viewership. Concurs Fred Vierra, president of United Cable, the nation's eighth largest operator: "We do not see their audiences growing. They're staying relatively flat." One evangelist cracks, "I was in West Irian on the island of New Guinea, and even some of the Stone Age people are familiar with the PTL scandal. That's how far it has gone...
Sometimes you realize that right where you are, wherever you are, you are on a tourist spot. Take another look at the familiar. Tourism...
...this morass of haute junque proved as difficult as avoiding thorns among roses. Still, there were a few honest and tempting candidates that rate consideration for fall shopping lists. The most esoteric and intriguing are caper berries from Spain, which have the same piquant tingle as the smaller, more familiar caper. Attached to their stems, these berries could become the status garnish of the year, perhaps replacing olives or lemon twists in martinis. Finnish bakers have a way with malty, palate-scrubbing sourdough rye crisp breads; the latest welcome entry is Kings Bread, crackling thin and cut into elegantly long...
...revolutionary cause and, in the bargain, to arrange for the surrender of his stronghold at West Point. Sir Henry needs a liaison between himself and Arnold to conduct negotiations both delicate and possibly dangerous; the task falls to Clinton's adjutant, Major John Andre. Arnold's treason is a familiar story, but British Journalist Anthony Bailey retells it from an intriguing angle. Here is the brave but unlucky major, captured, his mission exposed, awaiting his fate and talking to pass the time. He asks his American guards to consider the principles that governed his behavior: "It seems to me that...