Word: hauntingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obscure human struggle. There is defeat and triumph here, grief and joy, nobility and meanness, all arising from commonplace events, episodes and locales. The narrative rides mainly upon the father, but another protagonist of the book is memory itself. Moments from the chastening region of southwestern Montana haunt Doig...
...original Dodger-Giant rivalry goes back a lifetime, to New York City, the shadow of Coogan's Bluff and the baseball shades that still haunt Flatbush Avenue. But the reborn Giants seem to be rekindling their old rivalry with the Dodgers. They are a hungry, young team with a scrambling, come-from-behind style that disarms fans and ages managers unmercifully. So far this year the Giants have gone into extra innings 16 times and have won 34 of their 70 victories by a single...
After nearly an hour, Peacock cut the twin Mercuries. "This is the spot!" he called. We floated noiselessly on a dusky patch of sea. The jagged line on the Fathometer confirmed that we were in the swordfish's favorite haunt, a 1,100-ft.-deep stretch of the bathtub-warm Gulf Stream. Broadbills normally stay hundreds of feet down-one reason they are so hard to catch-but in the early '70s, Cuban refugee fishermen discovered that these fish rose from the depths at night, apparently to feed on squid that in turn were feeding on microscopic plankton...
Like Dickens' Ghost of Christmas Past, Richard Nixon [July 17] has returned to the public arena to haunt us. My contempt for Nixon has dissipated. He is a pathetic, flawed character. My disdain is reserved for the boobs, yahoos and Neanderthals of Leslie County, Ky., who yelled and whooped and hailed Nixon as if he were a conquering hero...
That ancient biblical injunction returned to haunt Premier Menachem Begin last week. Only a last-minute compromise between religious conviction and military necessity appears to have saved Begin's coalition government from its gravest domestic crisis in 13 months of rule. The issue: Israeli women in uniform...