Word: handly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Imagine the summer of 1994, Husky Stadium, Seattle, Washington--Argentina vs. Brazil, 72,484 partisans on hand, every television in the world tuned...
...through conversations with tour guides such as Paul, through bargaining with street vendors--a mixture of broken English phrases and hand signals--and through interaction with the children who gathered curiously on the streets to greet Americans, I was able to take away a sense of the Chinese people...
...Some Japanese argue that even if the country wanted to become a military superpower, it could not. They contend that the country is physically too small and is too easily susceptible to bombing and blockade. On the other hand, some Japanese believe that the day may come when they will have no choice but to bolster their forces. "The Japanese are pragmatic people," says Kase. "If the Americans withdraw and the Philippines or Korea goes Communist, we could consider...
...This is the true story," Mary McGarry Morris begins her first novel. "It starts once upon a summer day in Vermont." A half-naked Lorelei picks up a child-man who is working on roads for the county. The simpleton extends "his tarry hand." Immediately the voluptuous girl steals a pale blue pickup truck and waits for him on the soft shoulder of the highway. In a fast page, she has kidnaped a baby girl, and in what seems like five minutes after their first meeting, the three have driven into the Twilight Zone, only one as it might...
...albeit temporary, riches of the Social Security system offer us a genuine opportunity to deal with some pressing national needs." But critics charge that using the surplus for general governmental programs creates a demand that is hard to turn off once the need for the retirement funds is at hand...