Word: homely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There may be new stadiums in Florida and big microwave dishes beside them to beam games to snowbound fans back home. But so far, at least, traditionalists need not worry. As the Reds battled past the Cards a couple of weeks ago, a boy ran a ballpoint pen along the bullpen fence. Jeff Gray, a young Cincinnati reliever, smiled and started walking toward him. The boy arced his baseball over the fence, and Gray caught it easily and said, "Where do you want me to sign...
...prospect of uncontrolled radioactivity beneath the sea. Along with its reactors, the Mike-class sub was equipped to carry nuclear-armed cruise missiles. Soviet military spokesmen refused to say whether any such weapons were aboard, but Moscow acted quickly to try to dispel international concerns. Only hours after returning home from London, Mikhail Gorbachev sent reassuring messages to President Bush, British Prime Minister Thatcher and Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland. The power plant on the stricken sub had been shut down before the vessel sank, declared Gorbachev, who added, "The possibility of a nuclear explosion and radioactive pollution...
...North is also accused of acts difficult to explain away as matters of high policy: defrauding the Internal Revenue Service by helping a tax-exempt foundation raise money for the contras; accepting an illegal gift to a Government employee, a $13,800 security installation for his home; and putting some funds raised for the contras to his own personal...
Since then Rogers has become an exile of sorts in her community. While she is free to come and go as she pleases from her temporary home at a San Diego naval base, she is under the constant eye of four bodyguards from the Naval Investigative Service. She is also reportedly wired for sound so that the security officers can listen in on all her conversations...
Imelda Marcos, the outspoken wife of the Philippines' deposed President, is nothing if not determined to take her man home. But Ferdinand Marcos' successor, Corazon Aquino, refuses to allow the 71-year-old former leader, who suffers from heart and lung ailments, to return dead or alive from exile in Hawaii...