Word: french
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Seattle to catch Bird and the Boston Celtics on the road, and traveled with the team to Oakland and Los Angeles. Then he flew to Edmonton to talk with Gretzky and the Oilers. After that, to get a feeling for his subjects' nurturing grounds, he went to French Lick, Ind., where one of Bird's older brothers showed him around and introduced him to the family, and Brantford, Ont., where one of Gretzky's younger brothers served as his guide...
...book-clogged study on Manhattan's West Side, where he lives with his wife Marion, who translates his work from French into English, and their 12- year-old son Shlomo Elisha, Wiesel gazes down at the bare trees in Central Park and ponders. "Frequently I ask myself, how can one bring a child into this dreadful world, where Holocaust is now preceded by the word nuclear? And then I answer: In a faithless time, what greater act of belief is there than the one of birth? And what better thing to do than prevent the greatest murder...
...just go off and be glad. At the end of every season, when you get up the next morning, you think: 'Hey, no bus to take today, no plane to catch tomorrow.' It's the greatest feeling next to the championship." One gentle concern: he wonders if French Lick or even Terre Haute will ever suit him again as a place to live, now that he's seen Paree...
...been barred by state law from seeking a third consecutive term. Four years later, Edwards bragged that he could not lose to Treen unless he was "caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy." A riveting stump speaker who sprinkles his oratory with Cajun French, Edwards reputedly can film a 28-second campaign commercial in a single take without a script, a rehearsal or a stopwatch. He has run 15 times for public office, including four terms in Congress, and has never lost. Sighed the vanquished Treen: "It's difficult for me to understand his popularity...
...optimism in the financial markets was tempered by worries about the fate of the dollar, which last week gyrated wildly. At first, it took off on its swiftest, steepest climb since 1978. By Tuesday afternoon it had risen 2% against the West German mark and the French franc and more than 3% vs. the British pound, which sank to an all-time...