Word: ground
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation, something far deeper than what party is in control of the White House. "One segment of the population is doing well," said Anthony Iwaskiewizc, a Milwaukee businessman backing Jackson in this week's primary. "The other is doing poorly. There doesn't seem to be any middle ground. Jackson is going to bring notice to the bigger politicians that there are people's needs, not just the needs of business and arms makers...
...warrant their decision. With dangers so small, it is as hard to discount them totally as it is to specify them, but what good can the authors hope to accomplish by their ominous litany of "maybes"? We cannot laminate ourselves to avoid contact with all germs, nor hide below ground for fear of meteorites. If transmission by casual contact exists, current evidence suggests it is a rare occurrence, and becoming ever more infrequent...
...town of Vitebsk in 1887; his father was a herring packer, his grandfather a cantor and kosher butcher, his uncle an amateur violinist. The imagery of music and shtetl folklore, mingled with the face of his childhood sweetheart (and future wife), Bella Ro- senfeld, furnished the unaltering ground of his work for 80 years, long after the close-knit and weak little societies it represented had been incinerated by Hitler and Stalin. "All the little fences, the little cows and sheep, all the Jews, looked to me as original, as ingenuous and as eternal as the buildings in Giotto...
Smith walked firstbaseman Rich Renninger, but got a lot of help when Co-Captain Frank Morelli's hard ground ball hit Caprio off second base, putting the runner out. The sophomore hurler got out of the inning when freshman third baseman Aron Allen grounded...
Oklahoma (35-4) and Coach Billy Tubbs got on the next plane to Norman to accompany football Coach Barry Switzer at the nation's newest second-place breeding ground...