Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Governor Dukakis took the high road on this campaign initially, that we would not get caught up in a mudslinging campaign," says Christopher Georges '86, who works on the Democratic contender's issues staff. "It didn't work." Georges says he has watched policy questions and issues gradually lose ground in the campaign...
...held the Elis to 47 yards on the ground and 100 overall...
Drescher and Reid dragged St. Denis down the logging road to the dammed-up stream. They dumped the body on the swampy ground . . . Reid . . . picked up one end of the plastic. They were about to wrap St. Denis's head when he opened his eyes...
...gyrations through the region have accelerated as he prepares the ground for the meeting later this month of the informal Palestinian parliament that is expected to decide whether to proclaim an independent state, based on territory currently occupied by Israel -- the West Bank and Gaza -- and run by a provisional government. At 59, Arafat is a man both admired as a revolutionary leader and despised as a terrorist, a leader who can be calmly reasonable or passionately shrill in the pursuit of his cause. Last week Arafat borrowed an Iraqi jet for a brief trip to Turkey, complete with...
...this end he enlists his best friend Aldo (John Turturro) to tame the shrew with roses and sweet talk. Cyrano did better. Janice stands on a moonlit balcony, takes a look at the flowers, snorts "What faw?" and tosses them to the ground. Her contempt stokes Aldo's ardor and Huey's too. As their older friend May (Helen Hanft) notes wistfully about the triumph of love over logic, "I'll never again have the courage to be that stupid...