Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wasn't meant to be," said Betty Sue, erasing the poem from her ankle. "I'm a real-life, mature woman; you're a fictional, adolescent male...
...second-generation "king of the claimers," whose father Marion lived by the dry motto "We make our living out of other people's mistakes." In pure numbers of victories, the son has logged eight national training championships, including in 1986. But of late the cheaper achievements have meant less to him than the classic challenges. Van Berg wept last week for his special horse and for his late father. "There's no feeling in the world," he murmured, "like winning the Kentucky Derby...
Following the arrival ceremonies, the two leaders got down to serious talks. As they posed in the Oval Office for photographers, Reagan explained the Gephardt vote, saying, "We're now very much heartened by the narrow margin of victory," because it meant he would be able to sustain a veto. Yet the House later passed the final trade bill containing the Gephardt amendment by a decisive 290 to 137, just one vote shy of the amount needed to override a veto...
Attacked from both left and right, Botha is campaigning as a "moderate" with a ferocity that only Afrikaners could consider moderate. Choosing the U.S. as his favorite target, Botha at an election rally in Lichtenburg in the Transvaal declared that the congressional sanctions against South Africa meant the Kremlin "had its work done for it in Washington." Waving his arms, Botha insisted, "South Africa is the scapegoat of America's bad conscience, ((but)) the South African government is not prepared to surrender." Some 2,000 Afrikaners leaped to their feet, applauding wildly. Carrying his campaign to restive Stellenbosch last week...
...other novels, a public variation on the folly of private utopias. Concludes the narrator: "It was not until weeks afterwards, collating our diaries in the course of preparing our report to the government, that we discovered how happy each of us had been to leave. Man was not meant to abide in paradise...