Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bookstore for safety. The curmudgeonly owner tells him to get out, to go play video games like all the rest of the kids, but Bastian stands his group, declaring proudly that he owns 186 books. Bastian then asks to see what the old man is reading, but the latter refuses, saying. "It isn't safe." He explains that while a good book gets one involved with the plot, it is, after all, nothing more than a story. This book, called The Neverending Story, is different...
...books. The first is simply Lee's recollections of his playing days, the games, the times in the clubhouse and the off-the-field carousing And the rest is a blistering attack on baseball management in general and the Red Sox organization in particular. Of the two the latter is much more effective...
...latter possibility was gathering a critical and potentially explosive force of its own last week as women activists coalesced around the idea like no other issue since the struggle to pass the ERA. "All of a sudden women are thinking, 'My God, we're going to fight for it,' " says Eleanor Smeal, former president of the National Organization for Women. The case for a female running mate, supporters argue, is practical as well as ideological. Says Kathy Wilson, president of the National Women's Political Caucus: "Show me someone who could help beat Reagan more than...
...Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini is coming around to a more pragmatic position. Another is that he is simply trying to convince the U.S. that Iran is not out to get Washington's gulf allies and that the U.S. should therefore not "tilt" in favor of Iraq. The latter view assumes that Iran's war aims have not changed and will not until Saddam Hussein falls or Khomeini dies...
Much was made of Celtic Whooping Crane Kevin McHale's impersonal garroting of horn-rimmed Laker Kurt Rambis in Game 4. But there was a more telling development during that game, when Boston Guards Henderson and Dennis Johnson decided themselves to swap defensive assignments, and the latter efficiently took custody of Magic Johnson. The fact that K.C. Jones was open to the idea describes the Celtics' first-year coach, a humble former backcourtman who minimizes his part in eight Celtic championships by saying, "My fingerprints are all over the coattails of Bill Russell...