Word: meant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nuclear diplomacy, the zero option seems refreshingly simple: the U.S. and the Soviet Union would define a certain category of weapons in a certain region of the world, then wipe clean that particular corner of the slate. In the history of a slogging, controversial enterprise that has so often meant merely regulating the bloated arsenals of the superpowers rather than reducing them, the idea sounds innovative and bold. It would appear to be not just arms control but a big step toward real disarmament. Where now there are hundreds of weapons, soon there would be zero. Everyone can understand that...
...Dodger Greg Brock, no longer required to be Steve Garvey. Yount has lost the arm for shortstop but was center fielder enough to preserve the no-hitter with a diving catch for the final out. He was quick to say, "Paciorek's catch in the second inning meant just as much." Left Fielder Jim Paciorek, subbing for the young home-run champion Rob Deer, said not to forget the infield. And Nieves thanked the team. The season may only be dawning, but this is a winner's refrain...
...Holmes Hall Living Room provides space enough for Betrayal's many scene changes, which do not disrupt the flow of the play. The sets are not spectacular--a frugal bedroom, a two-table restaurant, and a couch, chair and table for a living room--but they are not meant...
...level of invention we had hoped for all night. But it will be lost on anyone who hasn't seen any of the Wilson pieces at the A.R.T., and who doesn't realize that the actors slowly pacing across the stage mouthing phonemes once did the same thing but meant it seriously...
Going both ways meant you played offense and defense. Recruiting was something the army did. And redshirting was something nobody had ever heard...