Word: lures
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unusual turns of happenstance conspired to lure the self-effacing Okoye away from the dusty city of Enugu in eastern Nigeria. Son of a onetime army officer, Okoye originally yearned for a soccer career. "It was soccer, soccer, soccer through elementary and high school," he recalls, "but as I grew up, my size made it impossible to go on." Known to schoolboy chums as "Cho-Cho," Okoye turned to track and field with ease. In 1981 an Enugu friend suggested that Okoye apply for a track scholarship at Azusa Pacific University, a small nondenominational Christian college in Southern California...
...this case, prepare for the '80s to be labeled the Decade of Satan. After all, Satan did force Jim Bakker into that motel room, and Jimmy Swaggert into that car. Satan made the Supreme Court rule against school prayer and for the right to flag-burn. And Satan did lure Don Johnson into a singing career...
...public prattle about family values, no other holiday brings generations together without the lure of anything more tangible than a good dinner. Think of the novelty of an extended family forced to spend the day doing little other than talking, eating and digesting. Distractions are gloriously limited: the malls are closed and the televised sports offerings sparse. Unlike New Year's Eve, no one feels compelled to have the time of one's life or broods unduly when reality fails to conform to these exaggerated expectations. The perfect Thanksgiving is timeless, as families replicate their own familiar rituals, complete with...
...sold to unsuspecting customers. Each week three continuing characters try to retrieve one of the objects before it wreaks its supernatural havoc. That serviceable premise provides the excuse for segments that range from old horror chestnuts (the ventriloquist controlled by his dummy) to spooky original tales (two abused children lure playmates into an evil playhouse...
Republican strategists have long feared that abortion could be the issue that divides the affluent, younger suburbanites from the hordes of fundamentalists and right-to-lifers who jointly swelled the G.O.P.'s ranks in the 1980s. Excited Democrats are testing out pro-choice positions to see whether they can lure away pro-choice Republicans and independents. Such strategies could prove especially damaging if they lead to the defeat of Republicans in state legislatures, which next year will begin reapportioning congressional districts on the basis of the 1990 census...