Word: hating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told this team, that with the way we've played the last two weekends, I'd sure hate to be playing us," Dooley said...
...maiden name, has had tumultuous but unsuccessful careers in acting and music. She has come out with a novel, Home Front, a thinly disguised autobiography about growing up as the daughter of an actor who becomes Governor of California and then President. The revealing book focuses on the love-hate emotions of a girl toward her detached father and cold mother. The heroine writes a poem to her father, who never has time to read it because "there are so many other things on my desk...
...know that Verdi refunded most of the expenses of a man who had twice traveled to Parma from Reggio to see Aida, only to hate it both times, with the proviso that he never again attend a Verdi premiere? Or that Sir Thomas Beecham once advised a tenor to sing the last scene of La Boheme on the bed next to the dying Mimi? "In that position, my dear fellow," said the redoubtable baronet, "I have performed some of my greatest achievements." And who can top the advice Richard Tucker once gave Franco Corelli, when the golden-calved Italian tenor...
Shcharansky says he was determined not to let this happen and spent long hours trying to keep his moral balance. He remembers creating the kind of unity among prisoners that he once strived for among Soviet dissidents. "The Soviet authorities hate any kind of solidarity among independent-minded people," he says. "In prison this becomes even clearer than it is in ordinary life. Prisoners are forbidden to write collective letters of protest. You are punished if you write to the authorities on behalf of another prisoner --say a sick man who is not getting any medical attention. The authorities...
...would hate to be the person who puts thelittle maroon stamps on them," Bridge says. "Canyou imagine putting on stamps for thesepromiscuous little Harvard twits who run aroundwith the ball all day and get paid for it,practically...