Word: longer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These sentences foreshadow nearly everything to come in Spartina, although just how cleverly Casey tips his hand does not become clear until much later. Pierce's family once mattered in this region of Rhode Island, but not any longer. A succession of bad breaks has "squeezed him up Pierce Creek to an acre of scrub," where he lives in a ramshackle house with his wife May and two teenage sons and scrabbles a living as a fisherman. "He'd had a plan: by age 40 he would be master of a ship. Here he was at age 40-plus...
...reveals to her what men think about after having sex: "how much longer do I have to lie here before I can go home?" And she publicly demonstrates to him how women fake orgasm...
...problem is whether you want them to suffer longer or to suffer shorter," says Ye. There is no getting around the fact that people would be hurt by sanctions, he says. But in the long-term, people will suffer more in a repressive government, he adds...
...faithful watchers of Miami Vice already recognize, the greatest threat to our national security is no longer global terrorism--it's drugs. So the villian in Timothy Dalton's second outing as Bond, and the first of the series not to be based on a Fleming work, is guess what, a narcotics kingpin...
...organizers. I was called at various times a coward, a traitor and a fraud. Our statement, taped to the walls, was torn down and efforts were made to intimidate me into leaving the area. I was told I am not a proper, loyal HUCTW member and I am no longer wanted in the union. Every possible pressure short of physical violence was brought to bean against me. Voters attempting to read out statements were taken aside by Union staff and instructed to ignore it on the grounds that we were a small group of cranks and anti-union activists. Voters...