Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couldn't run. He came to shoot the clerks in the box section next to mine. I just knew I was next." But as she hid, Sherrill passed her by and opened fire on the next section. As Smith ran for the front door, she said, "I could hear all the clerks screaming as they were shot." Another employee escaped by locking herself in a vault where stamps are kept. Two other survivors hid in a broom closet...
...Washington some observers believe the heralded Iranian attack on Basra could turn out to be a false alarm. "Every year we hear the same thing -- now | comes the final offensive," says Thomas McNaugher, a Persian Gulf watcher at the Brookings Institution, "and every year it peters out." Nonetheless, the prospect, however faint, that Iran could begin to extend its control deeper into Iraq and then through the gulf is too serious to be ignored. Windows in Kuwait already rattle from Iranian artillery bombardments just 15 miles away. Saudi Arabia and other neighboring states are growing increasingly nervous. "Complacency...
...Today show, diminutive Irish Pied Piper James Galway led the rows of virtuosos in Danny Boy, then John Denver's Annie's Song, which a Galway recording has popularized, and finally Amazing Grace. Why not a classical program? Says Galway: "What's the first thing you'd want to hear in the morning? Not some flute study. I thought they'd rather hear a folk tune...
Drug testing appears to have wide support among college athletes. "I think things are going to change because of the drug tests," says Mark Bryant, a starting forward on Seton Hall's basketball team. "I hear some players saying, 'Hey, I've got to stop this because I'm taking the drug test.' " Says Quarterback Mike Orth of the University of Kansas: "Personally, I approve of it. I don't think athletes here are that uptight about it. I don't see it as discriminating against athletes. A lot of industries are doing it too. They are trying to look...
...State Department spokesman. In Pretoria, South African officials denied that any of their troops were involved but did not respond to the U.S. scolding. They preferred to let the spotlight remain on Durban, where Botha's performance, after all, was just what many white South Africans had wanted to hear...