Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From a fan's perspective, trades are the only good things that happen in the off-season. All other baseball news over the winter involves injuries, arrests or salary disputes. During the off-season, trades are the only things that keep a fan thinking about what's important--next year and opening...
...precautions despite a general military alert. Not only did the guard at the gate leave the area when the shooting started, but many of the soldiers killed and wounded had been playing backgammon and checkers in a "clubhouse" tent when the guerrilla entered the military camp. "How did it happen," asked Army Chief of Staff Lieut. General Dan Shomron, "that one terrorist killed six soldiers and wounded seven others? We cannot live with an event like this...
...Central Park West in Manhattan, but at the back of the building. After my father remarried, he moved to Fifth Avenue, still at the back of the building. From him I get my tendency to pessimism. He always looked at the black side, imagined the worst that could happen. Eventually my stepmother and I forced him to retire, and I'm sorry to say I think it killed him -- he missed the worry...
...week's summit, even should it produce no immediate results beyond the INF treaty signing, could signal a turn away from the arms race toward a better relationship between the nuclear superpowers. For all their differences, Reagan's and Gorbachev's interests, and those of the countries they lead, happen to coincide for the moment. It is an opportunity that if not seized and built upon, may not soon come again...
...stripped of Kremlin apparatchiks. Accompanied by only an American interpreter, they talk about the world, their countries and themselves. Reagan would bet a cautious buck or two that they would reach a remarkable human understanding on how to ease tension around this overarmed and overheated globe. It will not happen, of course...