Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to be in for the long haul. Mallory is an excellent lesson in that." Sister Geraldine hurriedly adjusts her veil and prepares to attend Mass. This is the one day of the year when Sisters of the Good Shepherd all over the world renew their vows. No ceremony takes place; Mary Paul and Geraldine will reaffirm their vows in silence at the regular morning Mass at St. Michael's. Geraldine calls upstairs to Mary Paul that they may be late, conjectures that Mary Paul is lost in the morning papers...
...elimination of funding to aid highway safety; deep, possibly fatal reductions in the Public Health Service's organ-transplant network; and the end of many child abuse-prevention grants. He would also eliminate Amtrak subsidies, rejected by Congress this year because it would effectively end long-haul passenger trains...
...Louis-Boilly with embassies and mansions. The neighborhood's air of tranquillity was shattered one morning last week when five armed robbers invaded the museum, held some 40 tourists and eight guards at gunpoint, and made off with nine paintings valued at more than $10 million. Included in the haul was Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise, a 19th century masterpiece from which the Impressionist school takes its name...
...Long Haul...
...unlucky parachutist was Andrew Carter Thornton II, 40, a failed Kentucky lawyer turned smuggler and adventurer. He died while trying out the newest and most daring method yet of smuggling cocaine from South America to the U.S. Airplanes have long been a favored way to haul drugs, but federal authorities now use radar to track suspicious planes and keep watch on out-of-the-way airstrips. So smugglers have been trying to outwit police, and outdo James Bond, by using parachutes, night-vision goggles and radio beacons to make free-fall drops...