Word: harde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...duty airline pilot, who happened to be on board, had not rushed to the cockpit to assist him? Or if the 181-ft.-long aircraft had ripped apart in even a slightly different way? Or if that Sioux City cornfield had been drought baked and hard instead of rain soaked and soft...
Henley knows all the odd angles in the geometry of love. In one of his best songs, Long Way Home, he wrote, "There are three sides to every story:/ Yours, mine, and the cold, hard truth." There seems to be a lot of truth on this new album. Much of it sounds tough, as on one of Henley's favorite tracks, I Will Not Go Quietly ("It kicks ass more than any previous rock-'n'- roll songs I've done"), but nothing is delivered here with the jaded swagger that often got the Eagles branded as a slick bunch...
...salesman-farmer and an elementary school teacher in Linden, Texas ("Drive 20 miles to The Crossroads or, in the other direction, to Uncertain") -- Henley had a bedrock upbringing that permitted his musical excursions but gave him something to kick out against. When success with the Eagles hit fast and hard, he lived his share of the Los Angeles high life and paid a big price. In 1980 he found himself pickled in the press when he was given two years' probation for drug possession and fined for contributing to the delinquency of a minor. "I thought it was probably...
...have to guess about his destination after the election. With Midland suffering hard times, his connection with Harken offered a Dallas base from which to look for a new business and think about politics. But around Thanksgiving he learned from a former partner that a group attempting to buy the Rangers probably would fail to get American League approval. Always fascinated by baseball, Bush hesitated not a moment. Well before opening day in April, he had assembled a syndicate of investors far wealthier than...
Fans have suddenly become one of the Square's most valued commodities. Harvard Student Agencies, which leases fans to students, ran out Wednesday, they said. And Robert S. Toro, manager of Tags Hardware in Porter Square, said that the store was having a hard time meeting the demand for fans and related items like air conditioner cords and fuses...