Word: feet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...physically, at least yet, but gone as an effective barrier between East and West, opened in one unthinkable, stunning stroke to people it had kept apart for more than a generation. It was one of those rare times when the tectonic plates of history shift beneath men's feet, and nothing after is quite the same...
...reports that black bears have migrated southward in our state. I knew this already. I haven't had the luck to see one, but a few weeks ago a neighbor saw three of them, presumably a female and two cubs, at the edge of a pond a few hundred feet from my house in central New Hampshire. We can all rest easy, however, because the state's fish and game commission has opened a five-week bear-hunting season in our county. Since Oct. 1, the hairy-eared fellows who keep two big-game rifles racked in the back windows...
...threatened with civil war in the south of his country, a secessionist movement in the north and a collapsing economy that heralds a winter of fuel shortages and food riots. For all these differences -- and because of them -- George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev both stand to gain from a feet-up-on-the-table, let's-get-to-know-each-other chat. In a head-snapping acceleration of their relationship, the two leaders announced last week that they would visit each other aboard ships moored in the Mediterranean Sea Dec. 2 and 3 for a summ . . . oops, pardon, meeting...
...earth shakes and rolls under my feet," shrugs novelist Wallace Stegner, a 40-year resident of Los Altos Hills. "It's never particularly alarmed me." Brokers insist that San Francisco's booming real estate market has not subsided. "Obviously the quake was a drawback," concedes Katherine August of First Republic Bancorp, which specializes in loans for luxury homes. "But I don't think it will have a lasting effect on the market. We closed one deal the day after the quake." Says pollster Mervin Field: "Sure it shook people up. But look at the World Series game that was interrupted...
...future we'll collect baskets instead." But the Donaldsons are also looking into quake insurance, which they turned down when they bought their house four years ago. And while they are still determined to stand their ground, they have a new sense of how it can shift under their feet. Says Rene: "Now when I go out for a run and go under a freeway overpass, I look up and say, 'Not now, please' -- and speed...