Word: line
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...mine back in 1983. The critic mentioned that I ate breakfast with Ronald Reagan at the White House and "spent weekends with the President at Camp David." Neither assertion was true (not one cornflake with Reagan, not one hoofbeat at Camp David). These and similar inaccuracies supported the punch line that excess access might have warped my perspective. The reviewer later explained that he'd lacked the time to check the information...
...Candlestick Park were at first either confused or nonchalant. Both teams had finished batting practice. Then a soft, distant rumble grew louder. "It sounded like rolling thunder," said Peter Rubens, a winery manager seated in the right-field lower deck. The stadium shuddered. Light towers swayed. The foul-line poles in left and right field whipped back and forth. Though expansion joints at the top of the stadium absorbed the blow, chunks of concrete fell off, precisely as planned. One dangerous block crashed into a seat in Section 53. Only a moment before, its occupant had gone...
Krenz, who had long been expected to succeed his mentor, will get no honeymoon, since the change at the top does not alter the crisis down below. Given Krenz's hard-line convictions, there is little expectation that he will be the leader who will guide East Germany along the path toward social and economic reform. Krenz may turn out to be only a transitional figure, put in place, like the Soviet Union's Konstantin Chernenko, to warm the chair for a more visionary thinker. "The real reformers will take over power in the next six to twelve months," predicts...
...city of refugees. More than 100,000 had fled, and 250,000 remained, encamped in parks and fields. Rich and poor alike stood in line at improvised soup kitchens and mess halls. Policemen, soldiers and armed citizens proved all too eager to act on Mayor Eugene Schmitz's order to shoot looters. A few miscreants were killed, and ordinary citizens were forced at gunpoint to work in the cleanup. America and most of the civilized world mourned what ranks as one of the greatest calamities suffered by a U.S. city. In the New York Sun, Will Irwin wrote a eulogy...
...LONG GRAY LINE...