Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cooperson is fascinated by the eccentricities of each culture's language, as well as the foreign personalities. In Hawaiian, he says, there's no difference between nouns and verbs. So, for instance, the word for "chair" and the word for "sit" would be the same. In Arabic countries, time is thought of as unfolding behind one, the opposite of "facing" the future. The phrase "I have alot of chores behind me" takes on a whole new meaning, says Cooperson...
...lead, the home advantage started to seem a curse, though not to Ron Darling. The unlucky loser of the series' first decision ran his streak of unearned runs to 14 innings in the fourth game, better than any daydream he could have invented as a Fenway bleacher child. Hawaiian born, he said, "I've never quite understood why my parents moved from Hawaii to Massachusetts anyway." Referring to homegrown Boston Catcher Rich Gedman, Darling was particularly proud that "two guys from a place where players aren't supposed to come from are together in the World Series...
...main difference between Harvard and Hawaiian volleyball is that emphasis is placed on defense in Hawaii, and on passing at Harvard," Forman said...
...Hawaiian Maia Forman, the Harvard volleyball team's sophomore captain, the move to Cambridge has meant leaving behind--at least temporarily--a winning volleyball program...
Meanwhile, in his Hawaiian exile, Marcos was served his first subpoena, in connection with a civil case resulting from the 1981 killings of two anti- Marcos trade-union dispatchers in Seattle. The former Philippine President also continues to be named in a host of lawsuits around the U.S. As lawyers for the deposed dictator fended off legal actions, citizens of Davenport, Iowa, responded enthusiastically to a disk jockey's appeal to ease the plight of the Marcoses--sending 1,500 pairs of used footwear, including bowling shoes and swim fins, to replace the collection former First Lady Imelda left behind...