Word: hurts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DiCesare had not missed an inning at short since his sophomore year, and when Coach Alex Nahigian proposed the replacement, "'in case you get hurt in the future, 'I said, 'No way,'" DiCesare reported. "But I was just kidding...
...Syracuse is going to hurt you, however, it's going to hurt you with its doubles...
...points out that his alleged mission against the Syrians cost the U.S. government $120,000, "less than the cost of a slavo fired into the Shoul Mountains from the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey." It was a lot more effective than the artillery, and nobody got hurt accidentally. The services of a specialist seem like quite a deal, so why not admit it, and maybe do it more often...
...this point, the novel assumes all the surrealistic proportions of a Latin American novel. Much of the book, in fact, has the quality of being oversized, larger than life. Pain and desperation loom hellishly large yet remain real enough so that they can hurt and relieve at once. There is something enormously energetic and liberating about a book that teeters on the edge of familiar life and grandiose invention. Knopf claims "Eberstadt is a writer to watch." Even more, she is a writer to read...
...peace negotiations between the Sandinistas and the contras. For the most part, however, even persistent critics of Reagan's Central American policy are undisturbed. Says Larry Birns, the avowedly liberal director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs: "This is gunboat diplomacy upgraded, but a bit of pressure doesn't hurt...