Word: good
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good team effort, and a very close meet," said Jones. "Everyone was in a pack during the second mile helping each other...
...good for us to get in this action before next week," Co-Captain Eliza Schwarz said. "Otherwise, we would have been in the dark going into the tournament...
Washington correspondent Michael Duffy's traveling travails have involved bytes of a different kind. He recently arrived at Washington National Airport half an hour before takeoff, only to discover that he had forgotten his laptop computer. Luckily, Duffy found a Good Samaritan who stood in line for him while he sped home and picked up the machine. "Reporters without computers are like candidates without sound bites," says Duffy. Los Angeles bureau chief Dan Goodgame, who has covered both Bush and Dukakis, avoids such pitfalls by packing two light carryon bags. He is also careful to eschew the gonzo antics...
Goodgame seems to be in the majority this year. "A good time now is getting together with a colleague and transcribing a rally tape," notes Washington correspondent David Beckwith, who first boarded the bus in 1972. Since then, the traditional locker-room atmosphere on the bus has softened. Says Washington correspondent Alessandra Stanley: "Many of us 'girls' have sat in the back and listened to men compare notes on diets, aerobic exercise routines and their infants' teething problems, and watched them indignantly demand yogurt and Perrier from stewardesses vainly trying to push Bloody Marys and peanuts...
...less primitive." The author displayed no biases. Blacks are sometimes sympathetic; just as often they bring trouble. The moral force of religion can be redemptive, or it can lead to violence and death. Women may prove enlightened, or they may be evil incarnate. Only one thing is certain: no good deed is ever forgiven, and that insight informs O'Connor's fictions with a perverse brilliance...