Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meet people all the time. I went to a noodle place by myself today, and sat down alone at a table. Within five minutes I was talking with a young couple across from me, and by the time I left they had made me promise I would call so we could meet for lunch again. They want me to help them with their English and they'll help me with Chinese. I've only spent time with one Chinese student, but hopefully that will change as time goes...
From the start of the second period, Providence began to take the initiative behind strong offensive play by Beagan and Cammi Granato, sister of New York Rangers' forward Tony Granato. At 2:14 into the period, Granato took a pass from Beagan on the left side of the goal and pushed the puck past Harvard goalie Gillian D'Souza for the first point of the game...
...outline this story is pure Malamud. It sets a sympathetic vision of the underdogs and downtrodden against a backdrop of myth and spacious possibilities. When the narrative breaks off, the good guys are losing, a situation that is also typical of its author. But in the notes he left for the remaining four chapters, Malamud outlined a way for Yozip to be of further, and possibly victorious, service to those who had adopted...
...Soviet-run sector woke on the morning of Aug. 13, 1961, to find families sundered and the city rived by barbed wire -- and soon concrete -- many frantically sought routes of escape. The Berlin Wall was meant to halt a tide of migrants to the West that had left East Germany short of workers and threatened the stability of the Communist regime: more than 2.7 million had departed since the founding of the German Democratic Republic in 1949, 30,000 in July 1961 alone...
...denial -- found an extraordinary visual expression. In 1962, in one of the most publicized instances, 18-year-old Peter Fechter, an East Berlin bricklayer, was cut down by machine-gun fire as he tried to scale the Wall and, in plain view of Western policemen and reporters, was left lying for an hour while he bled to death; finally East German border guards retrieved his body. Fechter was one of an estimated 75 who have been killed over the past 28 years while trying to escape across the barrier...