Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outside Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory during a work break, staff observer Paul Avellar at first thought the angry red glow in the night sky was caused by forest fires. Then, seeing a greenish fringe and vertical streamers stretching like ribbons above the horizon, he realized what was happening. He raced to a telephone and called his wife and friends, awakening them and insisting they share the view. "A chance like this doesn't come along very often," says Avellar. "To see the northern lights is very humbling and awe-inspiring. You realize the sun is just going about...
...tennis: serve, volley, base line, drop shot, you name it. I try to set my goals as high as I can." If he inspires Asians, Chang will be pleased. "It helped Sweden when Borg came along and made such a big impact. I'm hoping it will also happen in Asia...
...Never in my worst dreams did I think such a thing could happen," said Raymond Ng, 21, a movie-studio technician. "Blood has flowed like a river. A catastrophe has befallen my country." So Hock, 42, a textile-factory worker explained his shock and outrage: "They sent the troops out to kill these young people, people the army is supposed to protect. They are worse than beasts." At a rally last Sunday at the Happy Valley racetrack, Legislative Council member Martin Lee told a crowd, "I believe it ((the crackdown)) is the work of very old men who cling...
Whether out of embarrassment or conciliation, Foley sought to downplay the incident, calling for an end to this "political Beirut." Barney Frank was less forgiving. Calling the story scurrilous, he warned Republicans, "If they don't cut the crap, something's going to happen, and I'm going to happen it." He knows of five top Republican officials who are homosexual, he says, adding, "My list will be accurate...
...dissident students and workers by the tens of thousands and shipping them off to the Chinese Gulag, a little-known but long-established system of political prisons. "Then all the linkages will snap," says a State Department official. That is exactly what some policymakers fear is about to happen, and they see little that the U.S. can do to head it off. Says a White House official: "The U.S. has no influence over the Chinese government's behavior. Zero. None." A presidential adviser explains, "For the Chinese leaders this is a battle to the death, and they're not particularly...